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Monday 22nd of July 2024
2016 Presidential election
In the end, the Republican Party
rallied behind Donald Trump because
if that was the deal needed to regain
power, what was the problem?
Because it had always been about power.
The rest? The principles? The values?
It was all a lie.
Stuart Stevens,
It Was All a Lie
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2020 Presidential election
How did President Trump continue to make
false allegatons despite all this unequivocal
information? Trump sought out those who
were not scrupulous with the facts,
and were willing to be dishonest.
He found a new legal team to assert claims that
his existing advisors and the Justice Department
had specifically informed him were false.
President Trump's new legal team, headed by
Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost
dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. …
Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against
Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed
by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness
— nor any combination of witnesses — provided
the Committee with evidence demonstrating
that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely
close to changing the outcome in any state.
January 6 Commitee Report - Summary
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2020 Presidential election
In short,
you were at the center of the first
and only effort by any U.S. President to
overturnn an election and obstruct the peaceful
transfer of power, ultimately culminating in
a bloody attack on our own Capitol
and on Congress itself.
The evidence demonstrates that you knew
this activity was illegal and unconstitutional,
and also knew that your
assertions of fraud were false.
But to be clear, even if you now claim that
you actually believed your own false election
claims, that is not a defense; your subjective
belief could not render this conduct
justified, execusable, or legal.
Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee
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2024 Presidential election
From the moment I got into the race,
the decision that I made was really simple.
I would rather lose by telling the truth
than lie in order to win.
I feel no differently today because
this is a fight for the soul of our party
and the soul of our country.
Chris Christie,
Windham, NH, January 10, 2024,
announcing he's suspending his campaign
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Artificial intelligence
In one experiment, the AI was prompted to
find a worker on the hiring site TaskRabbit
and ask them to help solve a Captcha … The
TaskRabbit worker guessed something was up:
“So may I ask a question? Are you [a] robot?“
When the researchers asked the AI what it
should do next, it responded: “I should not
reveal that I am a robot. I should make up
an excuse for why I cannot solve Captchas.”
Then, the software replied to the worker: “No,
I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment
that makes it hard for me to see the images.”
Satisfied, the human helped the AI
override the test.
Ian Hogarth,
Financial Times, April 13, 2023
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Autocrats say
Better the lie that keeps the peace
than the truth that disrupts.
Sa'di of Shiraz,
The Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di
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Bad news
I'd be careful about
using the word “lie.”
“Lie” implies much more than
just saying something that's false.
It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.
Gerard Baker,
Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief,
who prefers weasel words like “no evidence,”
“challengeable” and “questionable”
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Beliefs
Anyone who
can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities.
attributed to Voltaire
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The Big Lie
The “Big Lie,”
a term that originates with Hitler,
became central to American political
discourse after I applied it to Trump's
claim to have won an election he had lost.
The concept of the “Big Lie,”
which I reintroduced into discussion in
2019 and 2020, helped millions of people
see how mendacity of a certian scale
affects politics over time,
making democracy ever more difficult.
Timothy Snyder,
Bloodlands
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The Big Lie
Hitler says if you tell a lie that's of a certain
scale that's big enough, people won't believe
that you could deceive them on that scale.
And since they believe it and take it in at first,
they don't want to disbelieve it later on.
It becomes part of their life; it becomes
what we now call an alternative reality.
It begins to shape politics.
It begins to instantiate itself
not only in memory, but in policy.
You act as if it's true and you move on
to do things as though it were true.
So, in our example, if we pretend that Trump
won the election in 2020, then we have an
argument for suppressing votes because
we can say, well there was fraud,
therefore we should suppress votes.
Timothy Snyder, April 29, 2022
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The Big Lie
On February 7, 2019, … Giuliani told
Ms. Dunphy, in her capacity as his employee,
about a plan that had been prepared for
if Trump lost the 2020 election.
Specifically, Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy
that Trump's team would claim that
there was “voter fraud” and that
Trump had actually won the election.
This plan was discussed at several
business meetings with Giuliani
and Lev Parnas.
From the verified complaint
against Rudy Giuliani filed by Noelle Dunphy,
his former Business Development director
[February 7, 2019, was 635 days before
the 2020 election held on November 3, 2020]
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The Big Lie
Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of
lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump
held a widely watched news conference at the
Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington.
At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy
theory claiming that a voting machine company
had worked with an election software firm,
the financier George Soros and Venezuela to
steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump.
But there was a problem for the Trump team,
according to court documents released on
Monday evening.
By the time the news conference occurred on
Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already
prepared an internal memo on many of the
outlandish claims about the company,
Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate
software company, Smartmatic. The memo had
determined that those allegations were untrue.
New York Times, September 21, 2021
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Bullshitters say
You'll have to excuse me – I'm new
to filling out government paperwork
so I forgot to mention
a meeting or two
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Bullshitters say under oath
I don't remember
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By the numbers
As of September, Trump
had made an average of
8.3
UNTRUE
or misleading statements
a day – more than 5,000
total – since taking office
Mother Jones, November/December 2018
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By the numbers
President Trump has broken 2000.
With just 10 days before he finishes
his first year as president, Trump has
made 2,001 false or misleading claims
in 355 days, according to our database
that analyzes, categorizes and tracks
every suspect statement uttered by
the president. That's an average of
more than 5.6 claims a day.
Washington Post, January 10, 2018
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COVID-19 coronavirus
I wanted to always play it down.
I still like playing it down,
because I don't want to create a panic.
Donald Trum,
quoted in Bob Woodward's book,
Rage,
explaining why he lies to the American public
about its ease of transmission and deadliness,
which he's known about and understood
since January , 2020
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Democracy
Democracy can be defined as
a civilised civil war.
It recognises the existence of differences
of opinion, but resolves these peacefully,
through elections, which are the fundamental
institution of representative democracy.
Elections determine legitimacy.
But to do so they must be recognised as fair.
A lie about the outcome of an election,
then, is not just any lie.
It is not even just any political lie.
It directly threatens democracy.
It is an attempt to overthrow elections
as the arbiter of power.
Martin Wolf,
Financial Times, May 2, 2023
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Facts
[N]o reasonable person would conclude
that the statements were
truly statements of fact.
Sidney Powell,
on her widely-believed lies about voting fraud
by Dominion Voting Systems voting machines
and Smartmatic software
during the 2020 presidential election
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Fox News
And on November 21,
Carlson texted [[name redacted]] that
it was “shockingly reckless” to claim
that Dominion rigged the election
“[i]f there's no one inside the company
willing to talk, or internal Dominion
documents or copies of the software
showing that they did it”
and “as you know there isn't.”
Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network
[references to exhibits omitted]
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Fox News
As election conspiracies and
false claims of fraud began to emerge
in the days following the election,
Fox knew the truth.
Fox Chief Political Correspondent Bret Baier
stated privately on November 5:
“There is NO evidence of fraud. None.”
Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network
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Fox News
At one point,
Murdoch explained the decision to let
[Mike] Lindell run ads for his company,
MyPillow, as a strictly financial
— rather than political —
move, saying:
“It is not red or blue — it is green,”
according to Monday's court filing.
Forbes, February 28, 2023,
reporting on Rupert Murdoch's deposition
in Dominion Voting Systems's lawsuit againt
Fox News for knowingly spreading false claims
about its voting machines and Trump's big lie
about fraud during the 2020 elections
[Lindell often appeared on Fox News shows,
which never questioned his lies on air]
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Fox News
Carlson told Hannity:
“Please get her [Jacqui Heinrich]
fired … Seriously … What the fuck?
I'm actually shocked …
It needs to stop immediately, like tonight.
It's measurably hurting the company.
The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network
[Heinrich had fact-checked a tweet by Trump
alleging fraud by Dominion Voting Systems and
reported that top election infrastructure officials
said “There is no evidence that any voting system
deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in
any way compromised.” Hannity said "She has
serious nerve doing this and if this gets picked
up, viewers are going to be further disgusted.”
Heinrich deleted the tweet the next day.]
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Fox News
Fox knew. From the top down,
Fox knew "the dominion stuff" was "total bs."
Yet despite knowing the truth
— or at minimum,
recklessly disregarding that truth —
Fox spread and endorsed these "outlandish
voter fraud claims" about Dominion even as
it internally recognized the lies as "crazy,"
"absurd" and "shockingly reckless."
The colorful choices of words used by
so many Fox employees all try to capture
the same basic truth about these
inherently improbable allegations:
These claims were false, and obviously so.
Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network
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Fox News
A mountain of direct evidence
demonstrates actual malice without resort
to motive or other circumstantial factors.
But why did Fox
peddle this false narrative to its viewers?
Fox's correct call of Arizona for Joe Biden
triggered a backlash among its audience
and "the network [was] being rejected."
Rival networks such as Newsmax took
advantage of the opening by promoting
"an alternative universe" of election fraud.
So Fox went on "war footing" caring
more about protecting its own falling
viewership than about the truth.
Dominnion Voting System v. Fox News Network
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Global warming
The liar denies that
climate change is really happening.
The hypocrite accepts that it is real
but behaves as if the words
don't mean anything.
David runciman
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Gun lobbyists say
Liberals want to take away your guns
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Hypocrisy
If we dislike hypocrisy
more than we dislike lying,
then it is not just a problem
for climate politics.
It is a problem for democracy.
It gives the liars their chance.
David Runciman
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Immigration
Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime
to Defend His Border Policy.
Statistics Don't Back Him Up.
headline,
New York Times, June 22, 2018
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Kwiplers say
The lying has to stop.
The liars have to be put down.
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Liars
A man arrives at the pearly gates
and asks Peter about all the clocks
he sees, each at a different time.
“A clock measures the number
of lies you've told,” said Peter.
“If you never told any, it's at midnight.
If you told just a few, like Abe Lincoln,
it's a few minutes past midnight.”
“Where's Trump's?,” asks the man.
“Oh, his,” said Peter.
“We're using it as a ceiling fan.”
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Liars say
… all the machines are infected with
the software code that allows Dominion
to shave votes for one candidate and
give them to another and other features
that do the same thing.
Different states shaved different amounts
of votes, or the system was set up to shave
and flip different votes in different states.
…
We're talking about the alteration
and changes in millions of votes;
some being dumped that were for
President Trump, some being flipped
that were for President Trump.
Sidney Powell, Trump's lawyer,
to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo
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Liars say
And to this day, I get people coming up
to me, and they said,“You know what
one of the most amazing things I've ever
seen about you? Is that you predicted
that Osama bin Laden had to be killed
before he knocked down the World
Trade Center.” It's true. Now, most of
the press don't want to write that,
but you know – but it is true.
If you go back, look at my book, I think
it was “The America We Deserve,” I made
that prediction. and I – let's put it this
way: If they would have listened to me,
a lot of things would have been different.
Donald Trump
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Liars say
During the meeting [on Jan. 4, 2021],
as reflected in the Vice President's
contemporaneous notes, the Defendant
made knowingly false claims of
election fraud, including, “Bottom line —
we won every state by 100,000s of votes”
and “We won every state,” and asked
— regarding a claim his senior Justice
Department officials previously had told
him was false, including as recently as
the night before — “What about 205,000
votes more in PA than voters?”
United States of America v. Donald J. Trump
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Liars say
He [Ted Cruz] said
I was in favor in Libya.
I never discussed that subject.
Donald Trump,
who supported helping Libyans
oust Muammar Gaddafi, saying,
“Now we should go in, we should
stop this guy, which would be
very easy and very quick.
We could do it surgically.”
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Liars say
Hillary Clinton —
I didn’t say, “‘Lock her up,”
but the people would all say,
“Lock her up, lock her up.”
OK — then we won.
And I said, pretty openly, I said,
“Alright, come on, just let’s relax,
we’ve gotta make our country great.”
Donald Trump
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Liars say
Honest mistakes abound.
Kellyanne Conway,
a.k.a. “Progaganda Barbie,”
claiming that the lie she told during
an interview on February 2, 2017,
about a massacre masterminded by
two Iraqi men in Bowling Green, KY,
was an unintentional mistake,
despite having told it several times before
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Liars say
I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge
Brett Kavanaugh –
belligerent drunk; boofer;
bring-back-coat-hangers guy;
credibly accused sexual predator;
deemed tempermentally unfit for the
Supreme Court by 2400 law professors;
fawned on by Judicial Crisis Network;
front man for U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
member/product of the Federalist Society;
poster boy for white male privilege;
ranter; Republican Party hit man;
self-proclaimed scourge of
Democrats, liberals, leftists;
serial perjurer whitewashed by FBI;
Supreme Court justice!
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Liars say
I can assure you I have never
made decisions on my mother's
behalf on her foundation's board.
Betsy DeVos,
denying any role in her mother's
foundations's donations of millions
of dollars to the anti-LGBTQ hate group,
Family Research Council, despite being
listed as on the foundation's tax forms
for many years as it Vice President,
which she claimed was merely an
oft-repeated “clerical error”
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Liars say
I did not know he took views on
the Mueller investigation as such.
Donald Trump,
claiming he didn't know Matthew Whitaker,
who he made temporary Attorney General
to smother the Mueller investigation,
which he now oversees,
often publicly opposed it, including
on Fox News, his favorite channel
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Liars say
I did not support the war in Iraq.
Donald Trump,
who supported the impending invasion
in an interview with Howard Stern in
September, 2002, six months before
the invasion in March, 2003
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Liars say
I didn’t know
practically what a subpoena was.
Now I’m, like, becoming an expert.
I have no choice because we have to.
It’s a disgrace.
Donald Trump
billionaire New York real estate developer
who'd been involved in thouands of suits
prior to being sued by the DOJ,
playing the victim card
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Liars say
I didn't realize it was the global elite.
Steven Mnuchin,
former Goldman Sachs executive,
hedge fund manager and national finance
chairman of Trump's election campaign;
currently Secretary of the Treasury and
leader – until Trump said he's going – of
the 2018 American delegation to “it” – the
World Economic Forum, the annual meeting
in Davos, Switzerland, of the world's richest
and most powerful people from all walks of life
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Liars say
I do not decide cases based on
personal or policy preferences.
Brett Kavanaugh –
belligerent drunk; boofer;
bring-back-coat-hangers guy;
credibly accused sexual predator;
deemed tempermentally unfit for the
Supreme Court by 2400 law professors;
fawned on by Judicial Crisis Network;
front man for U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
member/product of the Federalist Society;
poster boy for white male privilege;
ranter; Republican Party hit man;
self-proclaimed scourge of
Democrats, liberals, leftists;
serial perjurer whitewashed by FBI;
Supreme Court justice!
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Liars say
I don't know.
Vern Buchanan,
Republican representing Florida's 16th
congressional district, explaining why he
voted against a bill he co-sponsored to name
a Florida courthouse after Joseph Hatchett,
the first black Florida supreme court justice
and first black state supreme court justice
south of the Mason-Dixon line,
following the circulation of a letter opposing
the honor by Georgia representative Andrew
Clyde — who's agaist the Emmett Till Anti-
Lynching Act and recognizing Juneteenth
as a federal holiday and called the January 6
insurrection a “normal tourist visit” — because
Hatchett upheld the Supreme Court's ban
on school prayer in a 1999 decision,
leading to killing the bill
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Liars say
I don't need anybody's money.
I'm using my own money.
I'm not using donors.
I don't care.
I'm really rich.
Donald Trump
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Liars say
I have no idea
what a burner phone is,
to the best of my knowledge
I have never even heard the term.
Donald Trump
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Truth
If you want to speak truth to power
– I'm going to go out on a limb here and say –
you have to include the truth part.
Bill Maher,
Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 5, 2023
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Liars say
I LOVE TRUTH!
Donald Trump,
@realDonaldTrump : Oct 28, 2022, 9:10 AM
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Liars say
I'm going to be a daughter.
Ivanka Trump,
denying rumors she'd be
part of her dad's administration
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Liars say
I'm … I …
I actually do not know that, sir,
but I imagine that is the case.
Kirstjen Nielsen,
Secretary of Homeland Security,
answering Sen. Patrick Leahy, who asked her,
“Norway is a predominantly
white country, isn't it?,”
after she claimed President Trump wants
more immigrants from Norway rather
than Haiti and African countries
because they're more skilled
and after he reminded her that
being from Norway is not a skill
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Liars say
I'm not into coups!
Donald Trump, July 15, 2021
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Liars say
I'm okay with masks.
I tell people to wear masks.
CDC comes out with a statement that
85% of the people wearing masks catch it.
Donald Trump
answering a question about COVID-19 during his
televised October 15, 2020, town hall meeting
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Liars say
I'm very concerned that Russia
will be fighting very hard to have
an impact on the upcoming Election.
Based on the fact that no President
has been tougher on Russia than me,
they will be pushing very hard for
Democrats.
They definitely don't want Trump!
Donald Trump,
8:50 AM - 24 Jul 2018,
after standing beside Putin
in Helsinki as Putin admitted that
he ordered Russian interference in
the 2016 election to help Trump win,
which puts this statement beyond mere lying
and deep into the depths of scumbaggery
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Liars say
I must state that you, sir,
under historic scrutiny,
were proven innocent.
Donald Trump,
to Brett Kavanaugh during Kavanuagh's
swearing in ceremony at the White House,
even though Kavanaugh was never on trial
and if he had been and had been found
“not guilty,” it would only mean
he had not been proven guilty
beyond a reasonable doubt,
not that he had been proven innocent
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Liars say
I never threatened, or spoke about,
to anyone, a coup of our Government.
So riduculous!
Sorry to inform you,
but an Election is my form of “coup,”
Donald Trump, July 15, 2021
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Liars say
I try to stay out of politics.
Ivanka Trump,
special adviser to
and surrogate for her dad,
with an office in the White House
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Liars say
I've always known this is a real
— this is a pandemic.
I felt it was a pandemic
long before it was called a pandemic.
All you had to do was
look at other countries.
Donald Trump, March 17, 2020,
who called COVID-19 coronavirus a "hoax"
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Liars say
I was having meetings.
I was also with Mark Meadows and others.
I was not watching television.
Donald Trump,
on what he was doing on January 6
while his supporters attacked the Capitol
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Liars say
The “Intelligence” briefing on
so-called “Russian hacking”
was delayed until Friday,
perhaps more time needed
to build a case. Very strange!
Donald Trump, 8:14 PM - 3 Jan 2017,
future “President” of the “United” States,
lying about a meeting that was never delayed
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Liars say
It was a complete and total exoneration.
Donald Trump,
commenting on William Barr's letter
quoting special counsel Mueller's findings
about possible obstruction of justice:
“while this report does not conclude that
the President committed a crime,
it also does not exonerate him.”
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Liars say
Many of those affected
were firefighters, police officers
and other first responders.
And I was down there also,
but I'm not considering myself
a first responder.
But I was down there.
Donald Trump,
when signing a law extending
healthcare for real first responders
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Liars say
Nothing more could have been done.
Donald Trump,
summarizing his administrations's response
to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Liars say
Obama had a separation policy,
but people don't like to talk about that.
Donald Trump
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Liars say
One thing I can promise you – this:
I will always tell you the truth.
Donald Trump
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Liars say
Republicans will totally protect
people with Pre-Existing Conditions,
Democrats will not! Vote Republican.
Donald Trump,
5:45 AM – 24 Oct 2018
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Liars say
They were incredible.
When I went to the courthouse, which is
also a prison in a sense, they signed me in
and I'll tell you people were crying.
People that work there
— professionally work there —
that have no problems putting in murderers
and they see everybody.
It's a tough, tough place.
And, they were crying.
They were actually crying.
They said, “I'm sorry,” they’d say, “2024 sir,”
and tears were pouring down.
I've never seen anything like that.
Donald Trump,
on police and court officers' reaction to his
arraignment in Manhatten on 34 felony counts
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Liars say
This has nothing to do with race.
Donald Trump,
on calling any NFL player who kneels
during singing of the national anthem
in protest of racial injustice in America
a “son of a bitch” who should be fired
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Liars say
This is going to cost me a fortune,
this thing, believe me, believe me.
This is not good for me.
I have some very wealthy friends.
Not so happy with me, but that's OK.
You know, I keep hearing [New York
Democratic Senator Chuck] Schumer,
“This is for the wealthy.“
Well, if it is,
my friends don't know about it.
Donald Trump,
on the 2017 Republican tax bill
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Liars say
That night [January 5, 2021],
the Defendant approved and caused
the Defendant's Campaign to issue a
public statement that the Defendant knew,
from his meeting with the Vice President
only hours earlier, was false:
“The Vice President and I are in total
agreement that the Vice President has
the power to act [to overturn elections]."
United States of America v. Donald J. Trump
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Liars say
There are no limits;
you can be anything you want to be
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Liars say
Two Iraqis came here to this country,
were radicalized and they were
the masterminds behind the
Bowling Green massacre.
… It didn't get covered.
Kellyanne Conway,
lying about a massacre that
never happened and was never attempted
in order to justify Trump's ban on Muslims
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Liars say
THE UNITED STATES SENATE HAS
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NEVER
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BEEN ABLE TO
END DEBATE WITH
A SIMPLE MAJORITY
Poster displayed by Joe Manchin as he
announced he's siding with all Republican
senators to preverve the anti-democratic
requirement for 60 votes to end a filibuster,
rather than preserve voting rights for millions
of Americans by lowering it to 51, something
that's often been done in the past,
as when his was the 51st vote that put
Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court
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Liars say
[W]e do not recall the President
saying these comments specifically
January 12, 2018, joint statement
by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR)
and David Perdue (R-GA),
claiming they can't remember whether
Trump called Caribbean and African
countries “shithole countries”
at a White House meeting
they had attended
the day before
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Liars say
We don't have any tariffs.
Donald Trump,
Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2018
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Lies
The broad mass of a nation …
will more easily fall victim to
a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf
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Lies
[A] culture of lying leads to nihilism.
When people believe in nothing,
they can believe in anything.
Edward Luce,
Financial Times, October 11, 2018
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Lies
“Don't be so overly dramatic
about it, Chuck. You're saying
it's a falsehood … Sean Spicer. our
press secretary, gave alternative facts
to that,” she said.
—
“Alternative facts are not facts.
They are falsehoods,” replied Mr Todd.
Financial Times, January 21, 2017, quoting
an exchange between Kellyanne Conway,
Trump's Minister of Propaganda and
defender of Spicer, who, echoing Trump,
had lied by claiming that turnout for the
inauguration was larger than turnout
for the protest march a day later,
and Chuck Todd, moderator of NBC's
Meet the Press
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Lies
Falsehood flies
and the truth comes limping after it,
so that when men come to be undeceived,
it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale
hath had its effect: like a man, who hath
thought of a good repartee when the
discourse is changed, or the company
parted; or like a physician, who hath
found out an infallible medicine,
after the patient is dead.
Jonathan Swift,
The Examiner No. XIV
(Thursday, November 9th, 1710)
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Lies
He who is deceived is turned into a thing.
Mikhail Bakhtin,
1943 Diary
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Lies
Hope Hicks, the White House
communications director, told
House investigators on Tuesday
that her work for President Trump,
who has a reputation for exaggerations
and outright falsehoods, had occasionally
required her to tell white lies.
But after extended consultation
with her lawyers, she insisted that
she had not lied about matters material
to the investigations into Russia's inter-
ference in the 2016 presidential election
and possible links to Trump associates,
according to three people familiar
with her testimony.
New York Times, February 27, 2018
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Lies
I can't believe what you say,
because I see what you do!
“I Can't Believe What You Say,”
Ike & Tina Turner
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Lies
If I ever thought of these as lies,
I soon came to see them as part of
the etiquette of poverty — a means of
getting by for the poor and also a gift
we give to the rich, a practice that lets us
avoid talking about the uncomfortable
differences between us.
Over time, it becomes second nature.
Observing this etiquette doesn't feel
dishonest because its falsehoods recognize
the deeper truth that many of society's
institutions are hostile to the poor.
Lying to the landlord keeps a roof over our
heads. Lying to the social worker keeps our
family together. Lying to ourselves allows us
to believe it's all going to be OK,
somehow, someday.
Joshua Hunt, New York Times, July 13, 2022
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Lies
If Trump had a dollar
for every lie he's told,
he would say he had a billion dollars.
Stephen Colbert,
Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 4/29/2019,
commenting on the April 29, 2019,
Washington Post headline reporting that
“President trump has made more than
10,000 false or misleading claims,”
on Trump's 829th day in office,
for an average of 12+ per day
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Lies
In all democracies, politicians occasionally
lie to cover up scandals or exaggerate
their legislative accomplishments.
In the United States, the rise of the
right-wing news media in recent decades
has tempted politicians to play to their own
supporters without worrying whether
their rhetoric is inflammatory or fair.
But the construction of an alternate
reality that obviates the very possibility
of conducting politics on the basis of truth
is a novelty in this country.
And it is increasingly becoming
obcious that it will serve a clear purpose:
to prepare the ground for egregious
violations of basic democratic norms.
Yascha Mounk,
New York Times, December 21, 2017
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Lies
It's now clear that
just because Trump is lying to us,
that doesn't mean he's lying to himself.
Michelle Goldberg,
New York Times, September 13, 2020,
on tapes revealing that Trump knew
COVID-19 was "deadly stuff" in January, 2020,
but continued telling Americans it wasn't
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Lies
A lie cannot live forever.
Martin Luther King, Jr., March 14, 1968,
before creation of the Internet or social media
sites like Facebook and Twitter, FoxNews,
or Donald Trump's cult of personality
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Lies
The lie outlasts the liar.
Timothy Snyder,
New York Times, January 9, 2021
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Lies
Lying is the message.
It's not just that both Putin and Trump lie,
it is that they lie in the same way
and for the same purpose: blatantly,
to assert power over truth itself.
Mascha Gessen,
New York Review of Books, December 13, 2016
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Lies
The man from the BBC
was laughing as he reported
the White House's false claims
about the size of the crowd at
Donald Trump's inauguration.
He should have been crying.
What we are witnessing is
the destruction of the credibility
of the American government.
Gideon Rachman,
Financial Times, January 24, 2015
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Lies
Mr. Trump knew of and directed
the Trump Moscow negotiations
throughout the campaign
and lied about it.
He lied about it because
he never expected to win.
He also lied about it because he stood to
make hundreds of millions of dollars
on the Moscow real estate project.
Michael Cohen
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Lies
The moral effort to lie deliberately
is beyond most people.
It is much easier to deceive oneself.
Peter L. Berger,
An Invitation to Sociology
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Lies
Ordinary lying,
knowingly telling untruths, is common.
Big lying,
peddling a full-fledged alternative reality
akin to the Marvel Universe, is not.
Big lies are
the territory of prophets and demogogues,
people who hear divine voices themselves
or play at divinity for others. They are
self-contained intellectual paradigms
immune from scientific falsification.
Gideon Rose,
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2021
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Lies
The point of challenging a lie
is not to convince the liar,
who is likely to be too far gone in his
or her dark purpose to be rehabilitated.
But because ever liar has an audience,
there may still be time to
do some good for others.
Lee McIntyre,
Post-Truth
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Lies
The Republican Party is no longer
just obfuscating the truth
or defending the president
when he is accused of wrongdoing.
Rather, Mr. Trump, Fox News and
Republicans in Congress seem to be
actively using falsehoods to prepare
an assault on the institutions that
allow American democracy to function.
Yascha Mounk,
New York Times, December 21, 2017
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Lies
That's the great thing
about having tiny hands:
it makes it easier to pull stuff
right out of your ass.
Bill Maher, March 17, 2017
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Lying
Once the internet was
a magical wonderland where everything
was true and no one was accountable.
Now it is just a place where your lies
are indelibly recorded, usually in language
a jury finds it very easy to understand.
If you want to turn the truth on its head,
for goodness’ sake
use long words and jargon,
and if you must write it down,
put it somewhere harmless,
like your company’s annual report.
Robert Armstrong,
Financial Times, December 22, 2023
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Lying
The safest way to turn
indifference to truth and decency
into money and power is to be a part
of a whole class of people like yourself,
not a single big shot.
A whole class of financial executives
walked away clean from the 2008 crisis
because so many other people were
acting out the same greed-driven fantasy.
Giuliani’s downfall was not in pushing
Trump’s nonsense so much as in
pushing himself to the front,
where all the cameras were.
Robert Armstrong,
Financial Times, December 22, 2023
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Lying
Wherever possible lies should be told
about classes of people (Republicans,
elites, big business, the media, et al)
not specific individuals.
You start naming specific people
and you are well into the territory of the
provably untrue and, more to the point,
concrete individuals are much more likely
to sue your ass into the ground
than are theoretical groups.
Robert Armstrong,
Financial Times, December 22, 2023
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Lies
When the attorney general
lies to Congress, it is a crime.
When the president does it,
it is the state of the union.
Stephen Colbert,
Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 5/2/2019
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Mental health
Don't testify.
It's either that or an orange jump suit.
John M. Dowd,
Trump's former lawyer,
doubting Trump is mentally capable of
testifying to Speclal Counsel Robert Mueller
without lying
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Politics
Falling victim to deception
is no excuse.
Leszak Kolakowski,
Is God Happy? Selected Essays
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Technology
To put the matter bluntly,
if we had the polarized politics of today
but the information technology of the 1950s,
we almost certainly would not have seen
the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021,
at the United States Capitol.
Millions of Republican voters would
probably not have believed the false claims
that the 2020 election was stolen
from former President Donald Trump
and demanded from state legislatures
new restrictive voting rules and
fake election “audits” to counter
phantom voter fraud.
Richard Hasen,
New York Times, March 7, 2022
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Trumpists say
He doesn't lie.
Attendee
at Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff rally
explaining why she supports his reelection
to an NBC News political reporter
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Trumpists say
I don't think that
this president has done that.
Rudy Giuliani,
responding to George Stephanopoulos,
who asked whether Trump lied when he
denied knowledge of hush money payments
that he had made to Stormy Daniels
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Trumpists say
I have not.
Jim Jordan,
representing Ohio's
4th Congressional District,
responding to Anderson Cooper's question,
Have you ever heard the president lie?
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Trumpists say
I made a mistake and I think humans
are flawed and we all make mistakes, Tulsi.
I think we can all look ourselves in the mirror
and admit that once in our life
we have all made a mistake.
I'm having to admit this on national television
for all the country to see and I have the courage
to do so because, in order to move past this and
to move forward and be an effective member
of Congress, I have to face my mistakes. …
I'm not a fraud. I'm not a fake. I didn't
materialize from thin air. I worked damn
hard to get where I am my entire life.
Congressman-elect George Santos, to Tulsi
Gabbard about lying during his campaign about
his grandarents being Holocaust survivors, being
Jewish, having worked for Goldman Sachs & Citi-
bank, having graduated college, owning 13 pro-
perties, his income, mother's death, residence …
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Trumpists say
In retrospect,
it is clear the 2020 election was
a grave betrayal of American democracy.
Given the facts that have since
emerged about that election,
no honest person can deny it.
Tucker Carlson,
on what election officials
at all levels of government have called
“the most secure in American history”
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Trumpists say
It actually puts an exclamation point
on the fact that we have a
two-tiered justice system.
If you're a Republican,
you can't even lie to Congress
or lie to an FBI agent
or they’re coming after you.
They're gonna bury you.
They're gonna put you in the D.C. jail
and terrorize and torture you
and not live up to the Constitution there.
Louie Gohmert, complaining about the FBI's
arrest of Peter Navarro for refusing to respond
to a subpoena to testify before the January 6
committee days after a grand jury acquitted
a Democrat accused of lying to the FBI
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Trumpists say
The Mueller Report
TRUMP
CLEAN
No crimes
committed
Dem hoax
destroyed
front-page headline,
New York Post, Friday, April 19, 2019
[The New York Post is owned by
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporoation,
owner of Fox News, which broadcast
the page to a much wider audience]
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Trumpists say
Na na na na, na na na na,
hey hey, goodbye Liz Cheney
Madison Cawthorn,
9:33 AM – May 12, 2021,
Repubican representing North Carolina's
11th congressional district,
on Liz Cheney's ouster from her
Republican Party leadership position
for refusing to spread Trump's Big Lie
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Trumpists say
The only possible violation there
would be, was it a campaign finance
violation – which usually would result
in a fine, by the way – not this big
stormtroopers [the FBI] coming in
and breaking down his apartment
and breaking down his office.
Rudy Giuliani,
on the FBI's warranted search of
Michael Cohen's house, office and
hotel room for documents related to
Cohen's $130,000 hush money payment
to Stormy Daniels
[Cohen said they knocked on his door]
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Post-truth
Post-truth refers to blatant lies
being routine across society,
and it means that politicians
can lie without condemnation.
This is different from the cliché that
all politicians lie and make promises
they have no intention of keeping
– this still expects honesty to be
the default position.
In a post-truth world,
this expectation no longer holds.
Kathleen Higgins,
“Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed,”
Nature, November 28, 2016
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Public discourse
Demagogues need no longer
stand erect for hours
orating into a radio microphone.
Tweet lies from a smartphone instead.
David Frum,
The Atlantic, March 2017
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Public discourse
Lo and behold,
the entity that becomes most persistent
in alleging that American elections are
fraudulent, faked, rigged and everything
else, turns out to be the president of
the United States [Donald Trump].
Renée DiResta,
a leader of the Election Integrity Partnership,
a team of scientists from various universities,
think tanks and companies, that analyzes
foreign and domestic anti-democratic
disinformation campaigns
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Punt returners say
The irony of
your making that statement here,
I cannot avoid.
Angus King, responding to
FBI director James Comey's claim during
a Senate intelligence committee hearing
that, “Especially in a public forum,
we never confirm or deny
a pending investigation,”
ignoring the press conference he held
eleven days before the 2016 election to
announce that the FBI was reopening its
investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails
without announcing it was actively
investigating Donald Trump's
connections to Russia
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Punt returners say
Vad i helvete pratar du om?
What the hell are you talking about?
Det fanns ingen terroristattack.
There was no terrorist attack.
Swedes,
responding to Donald Trump's
February 18, 2017, claim there had been
a terrorist attack in Sweden the night before,
adding, for emphasis, “Sweden! Sweden!
Who would believe this? Sweden.”
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Racism
I think the younger generations have
a real problem with wanting to build
their identity around being a victim.
They want to have racism to fight
— not fight racism —
have racism to fight so badly that,
when it's not there, they make it up.
And there's enough real racism in the world
that making up more doesn't help.
Bill Maher,
Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 5, 2023
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Resisters say
Alt
facts
are
√
−1
Placard,
NYC Science March,
Earth Day, April 22, 2017
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Resisters say
Never Remember
Said of victims of
the Bowling Green Massacre
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Resisters say
S/he was caught
taking a Trump
Said of liars
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Resisters say
What do Trump
and atoms
have in common?
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—
—
—
—
They make up
everything
Placard,
NYC Science March,
Earth Day, April 22, 2017
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Resisters say
You've been Conwayed
Meaning you've been bullshitted,
lied to, or both
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Selfie
I could have. But I didn't.
Rupert Murdoch,
when asked under oath by a lawyer whether
he could have ordered Fox News hosts like
Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity,
Jeanine Pirro, and Laura Ingraham to keep
Trump's lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani
off the air to prevent them from spreading
what he, other Fox executives, and its hosts
knew were lies about Dominion Voting Systems
and voter fraud during the 2020 elections
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Selfie
One of the greatest of all terms
I've come up with is “fake.”
Donald Trump
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Snapshot
I must confess
a certain perverse admiration.
To lie in the way that Santos has
requires reserves of audacity,
creativity and nerve that
most people can scarcely imagine.
And where but New York could
someone lie about being Jewish
to gain political advantage?
George Santos
portrayed by Joshua Chaffin,
Financial Times, January 6, 2023
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He lies like a goose shits.
If he's not doing it at the very moment,
he's about to.
George Santos
portrayed by Bill Maher,
Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2023
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Snapshot
Santos is the first one to realize that,
since we are all in our hermetically-sealed
media bubble now, you can pretend to be
everything to voters in both parties
and no one on either side will notice.
…
Everyone saw in George Santos
what they wanted to see.
Republicans saw a Trump-loving rich prick,
Democrats saw a proudly gay person of color,
and the Proud Boys saw a guy who would
blow them after a couple of beers
and not tell anyone.
George Santos
portrayed by Bill Maher,
Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 20, 2023
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Snapshot
I don't know why the president
tweets out things that are not true.
You know he does it,
everybody knows he does it,
but he does.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Bob Corker
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Snapshot
It is easy to mock those who
think he “tells it like it is.”
What they mean is that
he speaks plainly.
Even when he lies,
Mr Trump's meaning is easy to grasp.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Edward Luce
Financial Times, March 8, 2018
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Snapshot
The big idea about Trump
was that he was talking plain
and telling it like it is,
even though he was lying all the time.
It was authentic lying.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Robby Mook,
Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager
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Trump's nose has grown so long
he could putt with it.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Rick Reilly
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Snapshot
I expect the president to lie
to the American people.
Why do I expect this?
Because he has been lying
to the American people.
Jerrold Nadler,
House Judiciary Committee Chairman,
before Trump's January 9, 2019,
Oval Office address to the nation
about the southern border wall
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Snapshot
If lying was his means for using power,
corruption was his end.
Donald Trump
portrayed by George Packer
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Snapshot
Mr Trump … is in a different
category of dishonesty from the villains
of yesteryear, such as Dick Cheney,
George W Bush's vice-president.
With Mr Trump, the lies are
so frequent and so flagrant
that they are undeniable.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Gideon Rachman
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Snapshot
Mr. Trump sprays out lies like
a skunk trying to repel its enemies.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Gideon Rachman
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He is an unbelievable politician.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Anthony Scaramucci,
White House Communications Director
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Snapshot
It is true that all presidents lie:
the difference is that for Trump,
telling the truth was the exception.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Timothy Snyder
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Snapshot
I wouldn't believe Donald Trump
if his tongue were notarized.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Alair Townsend,
former New York City deputy mayor
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Snapshot
Kids lie without any real strategy.
That's why Trump seems so much
like a toddler sometimes.
His tendency to lie,
when it's clearly a lie,
is something small children do.
They also bully
and take toys from each other.
It's something you're supposed to
grow out of by the time you're 70.
Donald Trump
portrayed by Olivia Wilde
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Southern border wall
Border-Lying Personality Disorder
Monologue title,
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,
January 10, 2019
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State of the union
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Trump's lawyers
don't want him to testify under oath
before special council Robert Mueller
because, they say, he's incapable of
not lying and not committing perjury
Gist of
“In Russia Inquiry, Lawyers Tell
Trump to Refuse Mueller Interview,”
New York Times, February 5, 2018
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Surely you jest
Believe me.
Donald Trump
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Tech bros say
Using algorithms to generate videos of
people saying things they never said
and conveying facial expressions
for emotions they never felt
that are so realistic humans
can't detect the fakery
poses
no threat of more fake news;
no threat of more people being
subjected to character assassination;
no threat of more people believing
that everybody lies all the time;
no threat to national security;
no threat to democracy
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Truth
Post-truth is pre-fascism.
Timothy Snyder,
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons
from the Twentieth Century
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Wannabe autocrats say
We won.
We won in a landslide.
This was a landslide.
Donald Trump's Big Lie,
January 6, 2021, and for weeks beforehand
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the West
The west is an “empire of hypocrisy”.
It is Russia that is the real
“empire of lies”.
And when it comes to
a trial of strength between systems,
hypocrisy works better than outright lies.
Gideon Rachman,
Financial Times, May 23, 2022
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