Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele explains how to spot Trump's lies.

[Arkansas Granny]

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/deadline-wh-panel-loses-it-over-michael?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=17724

So, Michael Steele listened to Nicolle Wallace's panel's discussion on birtherism, first against President Obama, and coming out since January with intensity against Candidate/Senator Kamala Harris, and then he gave us something slightly more nuanced about how to detect the lies.

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STEELE: Listening to clip on birtherism and everything else that the president says, America, here is your tell, whenever the president says, "Well, I've heard..." shut it down, stop it, call it a lie and move on. Because the next sentence, word, phrase out of his mouth will be a lie. I want to know who are all of these people talking to him, telling him this information he's spewing out? "Oh, I hear there were 500,000 people, not 50,000." I mean, You're correcting -- or at that moment he's correcting Putin when Putin said 25 million people that, presumably the president of the country should know how many people died in World War II and Trump comes back, "I hear it was 50 million." Stop. It. Press, don't write that story. It is a lie. Whenever he comes out with the "I heard..." or "People say..." that's a tell...
WALLACE: ...Or, "My friend Jimmy." Jimmy's never real. He doesn't know anyone named JIMMY!

STEELE: Jimmy doesn't exist! Jimmy is in his HEEEAAAAADDDD. Jimmy is running from THIS eyeball to THAT eyeball. Okay? Can you understand that? Lemme tell you where Jimmy plays! He's right here...this eyeball to that eyeball. That's the space, people.

[Aristus]

1. Easy. If he's talking...

n/t

[rpannier]

8. His lips move. He's lying

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

50. Yes. Its that simple. . .

[catrose]

27. That's my system

Anybody who tells 11,000 lies in less than 3 years doesn't have much room to speak truth.

[OKNancy]

2. I saw that. He had the other panelists rolling in laughter

It was pretty funny live.

[malaise]

3. Watched it live

It was very good

[Pachamama]

11. I was laughing so hard along with them....especially about Trump's friend "Jimmy"....

Jimmy - Trump's friend who lives in his head and runs from one eye to the other....

Michael Steele was spot on about Trump's tell....

[malaise]

13. I did laugh - he nailed it

Joy Reid was excellent as well.

[LiberalFighter]

4. The person he is referring to that he heard it from

is himself.

You all remember when he said that he talks to himself all the time?

[Danascot]

5. I have no doubt

he thinks the voices in his head area real. After all they tell him what he wants to hear.

[barbtries]

6. i thought it was as easy as

he's talking.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Jimmy wouldn't lie ...

[malaise]

10. The Jimmy I know says he's an illegitimate president

Go Jimmy Carter!

[Hotler]

9. Run Jimmy run.....

[louis-t]

12. "Jimmy, is pret-ty sweet on you."

"Jimmy's been watching you. Oh yeah, you're just Jimmy's type."

[SMC22307]

39. LOL Hard to believe it's been, what...

about thirty years since the first episode?

"Jimmy doesn't like misunderstandings!"

[TygrBright]

14. You don't need to look for tells. Is is mouth moving? He's lying. n/t

[dchill]

15. And THAT'S the truth! No tells needed.

Trump IS the tell.

[pecosbob]

16. I'm in favor of anything that rustles his jimmies.

[SHRED]

17. I've got a question

Did Michael and Nicole speak out against Dump's birtherism as it occurred?

[lonely bird]

19. That would be no.

And neither did the bulk of the party with any real significance.

[SHRED]

21. This hypocrisy is too much for me

I appreciate they are against him now but will always hold them at arms length until they apologize.

I get alarmed at how easily these "never Trump"' conservatives are embraced here on the DU.

[LiberalLovinLug]

36. I think one has to be of two minds

At least I do.

On one hand we can use all the help we can get. The enemy of my enemy is my ally. So I appreciate the help, if not the person helping.

I will never respect Steele. Or Kristol, Frum, and others of the never Trump movement. Lets face it, Steele was their Uncle Tom, if there ever was one. Or their "black friend" they could show off being bequeathed the title of party chairman to "prove" how accommodating they were. And a part of him must have known that but he still went along with it. All while the racist Tea Party was ramping up, Trump was questioning Obama's BC, mass shootings happenings answered with NRA talking points.

[colorado_ufo]

40. Sorry, but I believe the "Uncle Tom" title belongs to Ben Carson.

Steele is just a run-of-the-mill hypocrite. Points for being sharp and funny, though!

[Arkansas Granny]

22. Well, I found this, FWIW.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-michael-steele-rove-birther-video-2011-4
MICHAEL STEELE: Trump Needs To Stop With This Birther Stuff

I don't find anything on Nicole's birther views.

[Grammy23]

18. It is true if his lips are moving it is likely that

a lie is coming or is being uttered. But his point that saying, “People are saying” or “I’ve heard blah, blah, blah” is a favorite device he uses to try to add weight or believability to what he is about to say is correct. Few reporters press him on who the mystery people are. When he says that, the very next question should be to ask who they are? When did he hear this? And they should press the point until he gets frustrated and gives an obviously snarky answer or makes up something that is clearly a lie. He is used to getting away with his worst lies without being confronted on the spot. That needs to change....even if they risk getting banned for a while. He thrives on attention, so eventually he will relent and let the person come back.

[shanti]

32. What he means

is that Faux Snooze told him this, because that's where he gets his marching orders from. We might as well say that Hannity and Carlson run this country.

[stopbush]

20. Er, most of us knew this back in 2015.

[samnsara]

23. also his voice gets a little higher and breathy...

...and he ends it with 'OK?' But we dont need any of that for us just to assume hes lying ALL the time.

[DeminPennswoods]

25. That's a tell with all conservatives, tbh

nt

[wryter2000]

37. Or ends with

"Believe me." Immediately, you know not to believe him.

[Historic NY]

24. If Trump is breathing, he's lying.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Easy! He opens his anus of a mouth.

[cstanleytech]

28. Maybe it was Jiminy Cricket?

[Enoki33]

29. Another one he frequently uses is 'some people say.'

[certainot]

30. it's more than that. when he says "i've heard" or "some people say" - he has

and they have said it, or some version of it.

thats the unfortunate part. the analysts and pundits are missing the most important factor in analyzing trump's words and actions.

just about everything he's said and done was initiated on talk radio, repeated over and over, unchallenged and uncorrected, until the base/dittoheads and he believe it.

sam nunberg told gabriel sherman for NY magazine 4/3/16 that in 2014 he "listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio". he said trump "was getting" his reports. that was the same year a russian troll said he "got a list of topics to write about".

roger stone was there then and was a long time user of talk radio going back to stopping recounts in florida in 2000. why was hannity's name redacted from the mueller report glossary when others in that boat just had their descriptions redacted?

the collusion is still happening under our noses, with the russians feeding talk radio, going back to at least 2008, limbaugh and hannity blowing it all over the country, fox doing the cartoon cliff notes, and trump following along and knowing his lies have already been blasted into the earholes of tens of millions of americans

dem reps must ask mueller about russian use of talk radio.

democrats have to put rw radio out of business with protests and boycotts, the limbaugh GOP will fall apart, and the analysts will finally stop analyzing symptoms

[FakeNoose]

45. Chump sees garbage on Twitter and he thinks it's "truth"

Also, listens to garbage on talk radio like you say. Critical thinking isn't a skill he ever acquired.
Garbage in = Garbage out.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. This.

We’re drowning in dangerous propaganda yet no one addresses that.

[oldlibdem]

31. My sure fire way to tell when cheetolini is fibbin'

Is to notice that when he moves his lips and words come out!

[mgardener]

33. Wise words

“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”
Dostoyevsky

[neeksgeek]

34. As George Carlin once said...

“I, did not need, to be told, THAT.”

(Commas added for phrasing.)

[calimary]

35. My husband and I have identified who it really is:

A mystery woman in trump’s life. Her name is Lotta People.

You’ll hear him talking about her and her input and her statements and messages to him. “Lotta People are saying...” and “there’s Lotta People saying... “

That’s his muse, I guess. He does pay attention to her. So she must be physically attractive in some way. No details on whether she lives with the White House Communication staff or the Mar-a-Lago staff or within the RNC or Pox Noise. And we’ve probably never seen her because she gets lost in the crowds. But her voice definitely makes it to trump’s ears. She probably has his private cell number.

Lotta People. If anyone has seen this woman, please notify the authorities!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

49. ...

[NastyRiffraff]

38. "Believe me"

Another giveaway. But as many have said, when his lips start moving, he's lying.

[YOHABLO]

41. I'd just like to know why Steele and Wallace have not registered as Democrats?

[mopinko]

42. if he says -i- he is probably lying. yesterday it was "i've been to some of those

places (detention centers)"
what a whopper, and no one has caught it that i saw.
can you imagine the cold sweat he would break into walking into a prison?
and if he had, he would have taken the marine band along to play hail to the chief for the teevee cameras.

but yeah, the tell is that his lips are moving.

[Ilsa]

43. The press promotes his lies.

They let him get away with floating gossip without anything to back it up.

[FakeNoose]

44. I've been using this handy guide since the 2016 election

I suppose it should be updated because he's got so many more ways to LIE now!

[xxqqqzme]

47. The 'did you know' is my favoritei

It is always something the majority of people do know.

'Did you know Lincoln was a republican?'

(Yes, as a matter of fact I did)
'
'Most people don't know that'.

(Yes, most people do because the republican party calls itself 'The Party of Lincoln'.)

[cp]

46. "Well, I've heard...."

Saw this on Deadline White House and thought Steele hit the nail on the head. Believe he was speaking directly to fellow pundits and commentators, and asking them to Just Stop There. As soon as Individual-1 utters that phrase, the interview or story is Over.
Thank you, Arkansas Granny, for posting this. Reading it makes me remember it better.