Amusing and humorous to see the desperate perversions of facts by the Fascist DPST's.
Originally Posted by oeb11
To lie, or not to lie? That’s a no-brainer for President Trump and his Republican enablers. They just go for it, making stuff up whenever they think it gives them an advantage. This utter shamelessness defines the political moment and will shape, or warp, the coming election.
It is an uncomfortable truth that one of our two major political parties, the GOP, lies boldly and constantly, while the other, the Democratic Party, does not. We in the media are still struggling to deal with this asymmetry. We urgently need to banish the “both sides” template from our coverage and give primacy to the facts, not to some Platonic ideal of fairness as always involving “on the one hand” and “on the other hand.” That works only if there are, indeed, two legitimate sides.
At this point, do we need examples? I’ll briefly cite just three.
Remember back in 2017, when Trump hectored his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, into opening yet another Justice Department investigation of Hillary Clinton? The president and his Republican allies muttered darkly about purported “corruption” involving the Clinton Foundation and a company called Uranium One. The Post reported last week that the investigation found no evidence of anything untoward. Nothing, nada, zilch.
Yet Trump’s rally crowds still chant “Lock her up!”
Much more recently, Trump, the nation’s liar in chief, claimed last week that assassinated Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani had been planning imminent terrorist attacks against four U.S. embassies. Yet Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper admitted Sunday he never saw any intelligence reports about planned embassy attacks. No one has forthrightly backed up Trump’s assertion, much less named the embassies supposedly in peril.
There is no evidence the claim was anything but a complete fabrication.
And Trump is far from the GOP’s only inveterate liar. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) claimed in a tweet Saturday that Democrats “have spent the last week trying to empower Iran.” In another tweet Sunday, McCarthy said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) delay in sending articles of impeachment to the Senate is somehow — absurdly — a plot to deny Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) the Democratic presidential nomination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...1a4_story.html
Viva La Bolton