Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate

[factfinder_77]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Never in modern presidential politics has a major candidate made false statements as routinely as Trump has. Over and over, independent researchers have examined what the Republican nominee says and concluded it was not the truth — but “pants on fire” (PolitiFact) or “four Pinocchios” (Washington Post Fact Checker).

Trump’s candidacy was premised on upending a dishonest establishment that has rigged American political and economic life, so many of his loyalists are willing to overlook his lies, as long as he rankles the powerful, said Republican strategist Rob Stutzman.

“It gives him not only license, but incentive to spin fantasy, because no one expects him to tell the truth,” said Stutzman, who worked against Trump during the primaries. “They believe they’re getting lied to constantly, so if their hero tells lies in order to strike back, they don’t care.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-false-statements-20160925-snap-story.html

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1. not latest breaking news!

haha, yes, i know the article is within the last 24 hours, but trump's unprecedented lying is hardly news

[SunSeeker]

2. Oh the irony. His supporters hate the "lying establishment" but Trump's lies are ok.

[question everything]

3. Exactly. One truthful claim was that he could shoot someonei in midtown

Manhattan and would still get the votes.

[onehandle]

4. Hate Trumps Logic. nt

[SunSeeker]

5. Indeed. nt

[Charles Bukowski]

6. Trump supporters love the bigoted rhetoric.

It's the ONLY reason why they put up with the lies and buffoonery.

[tblue37]

10. They want to be entertained by an election that plays like a WWE bout

--and they are too jaded and ignorant to realize that their entertainment and venting will have real world consequences.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. He's white and he's male -- what else do they need to know?

Oh, that's right -- he's a television celebrity, too!

[TomCADem]

12. It Is Amazing How Things Really Have Not Changed Since the 1930s

Here is a Dr. Seuss Cartoon noting the bigotry of the day.

[jtuck004]

7. Sounds like the television 90% of the people here are glued to most of the time - anything

but living their own lives. Lies and "entertainment" 24x7.

I'm sure this will make a deep impact on a lot of them.

[TomCADem]

8. Title on the Printed Version - "Scope of Trump's Lies Unmatched"

They can't help but water it down for internet version. I like how they open up with a list of some of his more prominent and recent lies:

Donald Trump says that taxes in the United States are higher than almost anywhere else on earth. They’re not.

He says he opposed the Iraq war from the start. He didn’t.

Now, after years of spreading the lie that President Obama was born in Africa, Trump says that Hillary Clinton did it first (untrue) and that he’s the one who put the controversy to rest (also untrue).

[wiggs]

9. At end: Trump may have some 'kind of psychosis'...

don't know why there isn't more written and summarized about all those who have serious questions about Trump's mental and behavioral condition. Ghost writer exposed Trump's tiny attention span and sociopathic behavior...this guy in the article can't tell if Trump is clever or handicapped:

Marty Kaplan, a professor of entertainment, media and society at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, has two theories on Trump’s falsehoods.

Perhaps he’s just putting on an act, like P.T. Barnum — a “marketer, con, snake-oil salesman who knows better, knows how to get the rubes into the tent.” Or maybe, Kaplan suggested, Trump is just “completely unconstrained by logic, rules, tradition, truth, law.”

“I’m confused,” he said, “whether the whole fact-free zone that he’s in is a strategic calculation or a kind of psychosis.”