lies

The family of #BrianSicknick, the #PoliceOfficer who died during the #Jan6 attack, blasted Trump’s appearance at a wake Thurs for slain #NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.

Charles & Kenneth Sicknick on Fri expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but said #Trump’s appearance, especially the #PressConference outside a funeral home, was nothing but an #inappropriate #PoliticalStunt.

#law #lies
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/29/family-of-brian-sicknick-d-c-officer-who-died-after-jan-6-riot-slam-trump-attending-wake-for-nypd-cop-jonathan-diller/

162 #lies & #distortions in a “news conference”. #NPR’s #FactCheck of #Trump

There were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long “news” conference Thurs that have gotten attn.

A team of NPR reporters & editors reviewed the transcript of his “news” conference & found AT LEAST 162 #misstatements, #exaggerations & outright #lies in 64 minutes. That's >2 a minute.

#TrumpLies
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference

#Trump’s Baseless Claims [#lies] About the Assassination Attempt Are #Dangerous

His growing effort to blame #Biden & #Harris for the shooting isn’t supported by ANY #evidence. But experts say it could stir #violence.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Incitement #extremism #radicalization #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism
#weird #insane #Nonsense #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-assassination-attempt-blame-biden-harris/

👀 Per Mary Trump of unfortunate birth.

Apparently, he was trying to connect his #lies about high bacon prices with his lies about wind energy. He keeps telling these easily debunked lies because, as Daniel Dale, chronicler of #Donalds mendacity, pointed out, “By virtue of shameless perseverance, [Donald] often manages to outlast most of the media’s willingness to correct any particular #falsehood.” In other words, while Donald never gets tired of lying, the #media gets tired of doing its job.

Joyce Vance quotes Greg Sargent, who says,

"Fact-checking MAGA's vile lie about cat-eating Haitians misses the point. It's an *open* assertion of the power to lie with impunity about immigrants as a prelude to 'bloody' removals of millions."

Then she adds,

"It's not just that the Haitian story is ridiculous. It's not just that it’s a lie."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #Nazis #genocide
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/ebullient-and-somber

Taking @StitchyMc’s words to heart that #Trump’s sensationalist #racist pet-eating #lies are designed to distract us in our outrage from what matters, so I’m turning back to his (make no mistake — it is his) #authoritarian handbook:

I read the full 900-pg #Project2025 manifesto – here’s why it matters

#HeritageFoundation blueprint describes an #America poisoned by ‘#wokeness’ & overtaken by lawlessness that only *#conservatives* can save

by Rachel Leingang
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/project-2025-election

#Trump, #Outrage & the Modern Era of #PoliticalViolence
The latest apparent assassination attempt against Trump indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by #anger stirred by him & against him.
Within days of Trump #vilifying #immigrants on national TV w/ #lies about #Haitian #immigrants eating pets in #Ohio, people began threatening to blow up #schools, #CityHall & other public bldgs, forcing #evacuations & prompting a wave of #fear.
-PeterBaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/us/politics/trump-violence-assassination-attempt.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&pvid=CF8B20A1-9295-4D22-895D-B8B8DF64FCD6