By Jake Anderson at theantimedia.org
UPDATE: Politifact amended their database to include ONE true statement made by Trump. The group also awarded him their annual Lie of the Year distinction!
(ANTIMEDIA) During the high winds of a political season, virtually every candidate is caught telling half-truths, misrepresentations of facts, distorted statistics, and even outright lies. That’s why groups like Politifactand FactCheck.org have plenty of work during an election season, especially when the presidency is up for grabs. Candidates are out there on the campaign trail almost every day, spouting agitprop to the hordes and slinging sound bytes to TV cameras.
According to Politifact, the vast majority of Trump’s recent statements are false, mostly false, or ‘pants on fire’ false and, literally, ZERO of his statements are true. 16 percent of his statements are mostly false; 39 percent of his statements are false; and 21 percent constitute the ‘pants on fire’ status, which, according to Dead State, includes his claim that Obama wants the United States to absorb 250,000 Syrian refugees.
Other greatest hits from Trump’s distorted reality machine include the following:
Mostly false
— “Hundreds of thousands of (illegal immigrants are) going to state and federal penitentiaries.”
— “We’re practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air.”
False
— “The 9/11 terrorists’ friends, family, girlfriends in the United States were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.”
— Regarding Syrian refugees, “there aren’t that many women, there aren’t that many children.”
— Under the Iran deal: “If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side.”
— Trumps’s tweeted crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.
Trump said the bogus crime graphic he retweeted came “from sources that are very credible.” False.https://t.co/BnTcWpyvDM
— FactCheck.org (@factcheckdotorg) November 24, 2015
— He stated Bernie Sanders will “tax you people at 90 percent.”
To see the full database of Trump lies, which is fairly staggering for anyone who has even a passing appreciation for the truth, check out Politifact’s Donald Trump file. Also, check out the FactCheck.org video below for a visual montage and chronology of his lies:
And as a final note, let’s recall what George Orwell said on the subject of truth and lies:
“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
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Unfortunately, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Goebbels’ big lie is still alive and kicking. He was talking about the state, but it is just as true for individuals. Tell a lie long enough and loud enough and it will be believed by most of the people. I don’t know the answer to this, except to say that people believe what they want to believe. Facts are fragile things. They need to be nurtured and cherished. Lincoln was more optimistic about the truth prevailing. He said that you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Really? Ever heard of HRC or BHO ? They lie constantly.
@Don
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
Really now, chummer?
Dude, your pants are on fire.
Well Don, Slice does make a very strong point here doesn’t he.
Until Bush/Cheney,in collusion with Zionist Israel, get convicted for war crimes for involvement in 9/11,you got NOTHING to bitch about. Fuck off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWLHiU8gYWY&feature=youtu.be
The facebook post that led me to this story has a picture of a bunch of urinals shaped like women’s mouths.
Seriously, anonhq? Just because somebody painted Trumps’ face over one of the mouths does not change the horrific and violent misogyny of urinals designed so men can pretend they are pissing in women’s mouths.
That is an image of abject violence against and humiliation of women.
Anonymous’ websites — yet another space in which women are neither welcomed nor respected.
You need to chill the he’ll out, dude. The article isn’t about you.
That doesn’t invalidate her quite valid point though.
you guys work for the cabal if you think Trump is a thug or bad for this country. He has said he would audit the FED and reinvestigate the events of 9-11 as well as be anto forced vaccines anti TPP repeal Obamacare and NAFTA. That sounds like he is for ruffling a lot of feathers and start the process to free us from the oligarchs system of slavery. Everyone else I can see who sponsors them Monsanto Goldman Sachs George Soros and others these people need to see their influence diminish and the people choices given more preference. We the people are the owners of this country not the evil ones who have manipulated their way into stealing it from us through trickery and evil corrupting the political class and owning the media and bankers. So if you want to be righteous and do the right thing the one to support is the one who is the choice of the freedom fighters and truth warriors not the disgruntled sleepers who can easily be manipulated to support whatever the evil ones want them to support by simply dangling free stuff in front of them. That choice of the freedom fighters is Trump.