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Something was seriously lost in all the hand-wringing about last night’s Debate — and that is the tsunami of LIES that “confidently” gushed forth from the “proclaimed Winner.” No thanks, to CNN’s no live fact-checking “moderation” stance.
What better way to evaluate the qualifications of the Candidates — other than by simply letting the Biggest and Best Liar ... “win.” [Snark]
Such is the current (lowly) state of corporate media. [Not Snark]
Thankfully a few have bothered to perform this public service, after the fact:
PolitiFact — The Poynter Institute
Trump: Biden "allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions."
Pants on Fire! [...]
Trump: "We had the safest border in the history of our country."
Mostly False. [...]
Trump: Biden allowed in "18 million people."
False. [...]
Trump: "The problem (Democrats) have is they're radical, because they will take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth."
False. [...]
Trump: "He caused this inflation. I gave him a country with … essentially no inflation. It was perfect."
Mostly False. [...]
Trump: "You look at the cost of food, where it's double, triple and quadruple."
False. [...]
Trump: "The only jobs (Biden) created are for illegal immigrants and bounce-back jobs, bounce-back from the COVID."
False. [...]
Trump: Biden "indicted me because I was his opponent."
False. [...]
Trump: "Social Security, he's destroying it, because millions of people are pouring into our country, and they're putting them onto Social Security. They're putting them onto Medicare, Medicaid."
False. [...]
Trump: "He wants to raise your taxes by four times. He wants to raise everybody's taxes by four times."
False. [...]
Trump: Regarding the 2020 election, "the fraud and everything else was ridiculous."
False. [...]
Trump: Pelosi said "I take full responsibility for Jan. 6."
False. [...]
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Biden: Presidential historians "voted who was the worst president in American history. From best to worst. They said (Trump) was the worst in all of American history."
True. The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, released in February, collected responses from 154 presidential historians, which included current and recent members of the American Political Science Association. The survey ranked Biden as the 14th best president in U.S. history, and put Trump last.
[...]
I encourage you to read more about the details of these important fact checks, found in this report from PolitiFact above.
And I will simply annotate the last item [True] plainly stated by President Biden, by going to its source:
14th best president in History is not that bad — especially when you consider the non-stop, lying alternative.
Here is a bit more about that report from “154 presidential historians” … and their evaluations submitted far from the glare of the CNN verbal-boxing arena:
NPR — February 19, 2024
Trump's overall rating was 10.92, easily the worst showing, while Biden's 62.66 had him tied with John Adams.
On the survey's 0-100 scale of "overall greatness," a rating of 50 means a president was average, while zero means a president is considered a failure.
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News Flash! being ranked 45th out of 45, does NOT make you a great President, Mr. Trump. To the contrary, constantly lying to the Public is NOT a trait that makes one worthy of this great Office. FYI.
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Hat Tip to strawbale for this written list from MeidasTouch:
Trump lied 50 times during the debate, 16 more lies than his felony convictions
