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And that exasperated advice was this:
“Stop saying it’s a wall. There is no wall.”
Even those who earn their living by translating Trump-speak into English — even they have their breaking points apparently. In other words, there are just some Trump Lies, that break their last shreds of rationality that somehow remain …
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“The president also said something about the wall and its current state that made me curious,” the Fox News television correspondent stated. “I must have missed the wall being built. What wall?”
[Laura] Ingraham called Trump out regarding lying about the wall, which is yet to be built.
“Stop saying it’s a wall. There’s no wall,” she said. “If you want a wall say we don’t have the wall — I know it’s bad because he made the promise, but they’re not building the wall. So you gotta stop saying that.”
nowthisnews.com
Yikes! A presidential water-carrier who actually Fact-checked the Trump snake-oil claims.
Hey Laura when you wake up and see this is a viable way to get some of your Ad Revenue back — check out these tall-tales from the Trump “Bottomless Pinocchios” List.
The Washington Post has instituted a new fact checking category — called “Bottomless Pinocchios” — for President Trump’s false claims that have been repeated at least 20 times and were originally rated Three or Four Pinocchios.
“The Fact Checker has not identified statements from any other current elected official who meets the standard other than Trump. In fact, 14 statements made by the president immediately qualify for the list.”
politicalwire.com
Ms Ingraham, here is the 15th Trump Falsehood to get added to that very exclusive List:
Here’s the Trumpian statement from his Tuesday meeting Pelosi and Schumer:
One thing that I do have to say is tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of wall when you include the renovation of existing fences and walls renovated a tremendous amount, and we’ve done a lot of work. … Big sections of wall. And we will continue that. And one way or the other it’s going to get built.
www.minnpost.com
It might be a “whopper” of an assessment that even a Trump-apologist like yourself, could actually agree with, eh?
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Here’s another “Bottomless Pinocchio” from the Tweeter of Knowledge — although Trump himself has coined a different “label” for them, his artful dealings:
President Trump’s most famous and longstanding whoppers have concerned his own personal wealth, which he has said to be in excess of ten billion dollars. Forbes annual billionaires list places the real number at about a third of that.
In his book “The Art of the Deal,” Trump openly admitted to being creative with facts as long as the spirit of what he said was correct — in a move he dubbed “truthful hyperbole.”
www.thewrap.com
“Truthful Hyperboles” … is that anything like that famous Shakespeare quote:
“A Lie by any other name, would be just as deceptive."
Hyperbolically speaking of course.
Next up in the Bottomless Pinocchios sights:
Honest Abe’s claims to Fame, and Washington’s Cherry Tree blunder.
Stay tuned. President Trump will have company there, someday …
“a tremendous amount” of company.
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