Trump is a liar and very very ignorant.

It has generally been my experience that when people pepper their speech with the phrase “believe me,” they are not to be believed.

The default position among people of honor — the silent agreement between speaker and listener — is one of truth and trust.

But Donald Trump is not a person of honor.

Presidents lie. Politicians lie. People lie. But Trump lies with a ferocious abandon.

For instance, the fact-checking website PolitiFact found that of thestatements by Hillary Clinton that it checked, 22 percent were completely “true” and another 28 percent were “mostly true.”

But Trump is another animal. There is no true equivalency between Trump and Clinton, or between Trump and any other politician, for that matter. Only 4 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked were rated as completely “true” and only another 11 percent were even rated as “mostly true.” Seventy percent of Trump’s statements that the site checked were rated as “mostly false,” “false” or “pants on fire,” the site’s worse rating.

The truth shifts beneath Trump like sand. He has no regard for the firmness of fact. For him, fact is as pliant as that Play-Doh he handed out to flood victims in Louisiana.

Indeed, PoltiFact named Trump’s collective “campaign misstatements” the2015 Lie of the Year, writing:

“It’s the trope on Trump: He’s authentic, a straight-talker, less scripted than traditional politicians. That’s because Donald Trump doesn’t let facts slow him down. Bending the truth or being unhampered by accuracy is a strategy he has followed for years.”

The site quotes from Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal,” in which he says, “People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”

In fact, Tony Schwartz was the ghostwriter for that book and in July he blasted Trump in an interview in The New Yorker:

“Schwartz says of Trump, ‘He lied strategically. He had a complete lack of conscience about it.’ Since most people are ‘constrained by the truth,’ Trump’s indifference to it ‘gave him a strange advantage.’”

When introducing a series about “the scale and depth of Donald Trump’s lies,” the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, put it this way:

“Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, does not so much struggle with the truth as strangle it altogether. He lies to avoid. He lies to inflame. He lies to promote and to preen. Sometimes he seems to lie just for the hell of it. He traffics in conspiracy theories that he cannot possibly believe and in grotesque promises that he cannot possibly fulfill. When found out, he changes the subject — or lies larger.”

And yet in polls like the CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday, Trump leads Clinton on the issue of being honest and trustworthy by 15 percentage points. (I should point out that some have raised questions about the methodology of that poll.)

I believe that this is in large part because we, an irresponsible media, have built a false equivalency in which the choice between Clinton and Trump seems to have equally bad implications, because we have framed it as a choice between a liar and a lunatic.

But this obscures the fact that the lunatic is also a pathological liar of a kind and quality that we have not seen in recent presidential politics and perhaps ever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/o...version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

 

Save yourself some time. No one cares what you or anyone thinks about politics. You will not change one person's mind.

 

He says he was against the Iraq war. A lie.

He says that he saw thousands of Muslims dancing after 9/11. A lie.

He says that global warming is a hoax. A lie.

He says that he knows more about Isis than the generals. A lie that only a crazy liar could make.


He says so many lies that it's nearly impossible to list them all. Although, to be fair, much of it could just be plain old ignorance.

 

That last quote from the Trump supporter was great. "I don't believe any of those other politicians. I believe Donald" lol

Every one of his supporters should watch that video. Not that it would matter.

 

Caddell stated, “By the way, the new argument that ‘I used a classified server for classified documents,’ where the hell did that come from? I mean, that was just out of left field.” He went on to say, “I was on my heels listening: ‘Oh, my gosh, what are you talking about?’ She keeps going back to the same lies, and she gets away with it because Lauer doesn’t follow up.”

“She looked defensive and sounded defensive, and the mainstream media is just flipping out because they don’t know what to do,” Caddell concluded.

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016...k-to-the-same-lies-and-she-gets-away-with-it/

 

Anyone, and I mean anyone who supports Hillary Clinton is not in any position to judge another persons level of honesty. It's laughable to even consider that.

 

So people do not care that he is factually speaking, ignorant and a liar? Isn't at least knowing stuff important for a president?

 

Not at all. Trump is the FAR larger liar. Big ignorant cluleless lies. Many of them. It's not even close. Clintons lies are overblown and mostly made up by ignorant sheep righties.

 

one of your most ridiculous arguments yet. the Clintons are the Lucifers of lying politicians. And when Hillary claimed she did not know that C meant classified... she became the biggest liar in the family.