Sunday, September 25, 2016
None from Burger King
Donald Trump's whoppers may come from different sources but they are all filtered through his Orangeness so he can claim full ownership when they work. The New York Times assembled their own list of The Big Lies of Donald "Little Hand" Trump just from last week.
All politicians bend the truth to fit their purposes, including Hillary Clinton. But Donald J. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general election, peppering his speeches, interviews and Twitter posts with untruths so frequent that they can seem flighty or random — even compulsive.As with all serial liars, Donald Trump's lies fall into several general categories.
However, a closer examination, over the course of a week, revealed an unmistakable pattern: Virtually all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction. Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist, described the practice as creating “an unreality bubble that he surrounds himself with.”
The New York Times closely tracked Mr. Trump’s public statements from Sept. 15-21, and assembled a list of his 31 biggest whoppers, many of them uttered repeatedly. This total excludes dozens more: Untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors. Mr. Trump’s campaign, which dismissed this compilation as “silly,” offered responses on every point, but in none of the following instances did the responses support his assertions.
- Tall Tales About Himself
- Unfounded Claims About
- Critics and the News Media
- Inaccurate Claims About Clinton
- Stump Speech Falsehoods
- Esoteric Embellishments
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