Trump lies

As a defendant, Donald Trump has the right to remain silent.

He just doesn’t have the ability.

This weekend, he did an interview on Face the Nation where he admitted that he had been told by lawyers that there was no election fraud, but he ignored them and proudly proclaimed that he pushed the fake election lies anyway.

“You know who I listened to? Myself,” Trump said, explaining why he ignored the advice of people who know stuff.

Then later he criticized Biden for being out of touch, claiming that Biden would lead us into “World War Two.” That is not a typo. That’s what he said. In that same speech, he proudly proclaimed that in the polls for 2024 that he was ahead of “Obama” (who, of course, is not running) and then bragged about the “fact” that he had beaten Obama in 2016. (I shouldn’t have to remind you that his opponent in 2016 was Hillary Clinton, right?) He then claimed in another interview that he didn’t know that someone had given Dr. Fauci the Presidential Award. (It was him. He gave Fauci the award.)

Yes, this is the man who claims Biden is “cognitively impaired.”

But he didn’t stop there.

He celebrated Rosh Hashanah by tweeting a graphic claiming he had done wonderful things for the Jewish people while berating the vast majority who never voted for him: “A reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!” Trump thinks if you didn’t vote for him, you are in support of “destroying America and Israel.” Remember that, my Jewish friends: Trump may constantly push standard anti-semitic conspiracy theories while claiming that Nazis and Klan members contain “good people” but he’s really on your side — you’re just too stupid to realize it.

I will give him credit for one thing, though: At the end of his tweet where he proclaims he’s done so much for Israel (as if that’s the only issue American Jews care about), he states that he is “Clearly, one of the greatest Anti Semites of our time!”

So I guess he does say the truth every once in a while.

The latest lie blames the Democrats for the government shutdown. This is despite the fact that the Republicans couldn’t even get enough votes from their own party to reach 50%.

Mind you, this isn’t just a talking point. In a completely unprecedented and childish move that is 100% away from “Presidential,” the White House has stopped answering the phone, and people who call get a message blaming the Democrats. I am not making this up.
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Let’s recap. The GOP said “If you don’t either kill the Dreamer program or CHIP which provides health care to poor children, and if you don’t let us build the wall, we’re going to shut the government down.”

Or, to put it another way, “We have hostages. Do what we say and we will only kill one of them.”

The Dreamer Program (DACA, which stands for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”) is supported by 87% of all Americans, who clearly think it’s a pretty good idea. This allows innocent children who were brought here illegally by their parents to stay in this country if they do certain things (don’t get arrested, stay in school, join our military, etc.). It has been wildly successful. People like helping children. But, of course, the GOP hates it for some reason. (Hint: it helps brown people.)

CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) similarly provides support for kids who, through no fault of their own, are poor. It is supported by 75% of Americans because, come on, we’re nice people who think children deserve not to die. Once more, the GOP says “screw you” to what the vast majority of Americans want.

And then there’s the Wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for. Now he wants us to pay for it. This is opposed by 63% of Americans as it has been since Trump first started spouting it on the campaign trail. Do you think the Republicans care what Americans want? (And why only a border wall with Mexico and not Canada? Hint: brown people again.)

The Democrats are standing up for what the vast majority of Americans want. Yet the GOP still claims it’s the Democrats’ fault.

The House came up with a compromise (because that’s what government is all about — compromising) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with the president and worked out a deal. Trump, of course, then broke his promise to Schumer almost immediately and then blamed Schumer. “Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with jello,” Schumer said.

Yet they still say it’s the Democrats’ fault.

You’d think a man who ran on the platform of being “the world’s greatest negotiator” would have been able to come to some sort of compromise, wouldn’t you? But of course, for that to happen, it would have meant that Trump would have told the truth.

And that’s just clearly not in his character.