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The most made up story in decades is the absolute fugging LIE (Original Post) malaise Jan 2018 OP
When Trump says it's fake, it's real dalton99a Jan 2018 #1
Yep thegoose Jan 2018 #5
absolutely... life in tRumplandia* Raster Jan 2018 #8
That is absolutely true. dchill Jan 2018 #15
Fair is foul and foul is fair. fierywoman Jan 2018 #2
K&R...and a helluva forum spanone Jan 2018 #3
Hillary got negative 3 billion free ads. Republicons emails Benghazi ensured emails Benghazi this e Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2018 #4
The only people who believe this book is full of lies Mr. Ected Jan 2018 #6
Oh. That DFW Jan 2018 #7
K&R! mcar Jan 2018 #9
If Chump's lips are moving, he is lying. gademocrat7 Jan 2018 #10
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Jan 2018 #11
What goes around comes around n/t NEOBuckeye Jan 2018 #12
Fake news Srkdqltr Jan 2018 #13
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2018 #14
This particular lie exposed the Con for what he is malaise Jan 2018 #16
Yes, but it was a harmless, humorous sort of lie. JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2018 #17
I don't think it was inconsequential at all malaise Jan 2018 #18
I can see that. The lie might have encouraged some bottom-feeding racists ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2018 #19
 

thegoose

(3,115 posts)
5. Yep
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:11 PM
Jan 2018

Look, even if Wolff embellished 25 percent of the book (which is a yuuuge percentage), that still leaves 75 percent true. Plus, we've heard all of this stuff drip by drip since the Dotard took office. Of course he's got a bunch of unhappy campers in the White House. They don't know what they're doing, and they're being led by some asshole who probably occasionally stomps through in his bathroom, phone in hand, and screams obscenities.

And yes, Dump lies, lies and lies! Every time he says he's doing something great for America, as you say, "It's Opposite Day!" in Trumpworld.

spanone

(135,841 posts)
3. K&R...and a helluva forum
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 04:28 PM
Jan 2018

May, 2016: Trump has gotten nearly $3 billion in ‘free’ advertising



Donald Trump has gotten the equivalent of nearly $3 billion in free advertising since last May, according to the latest statistics from the firm mediaQuant, blowing away rivals in both parties.

Trump, who became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee when last rivals Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich exited the race, has received the equivalent of more than $2.8 billion in free ads through April. That’s based on media coverage and the equivalent advertising rates.

By comparison, Cruz, who dropped out on Tuesday, has received the equivalent of about $771 million since last May.

The numbers are likely to add fuel to critics’ charges that Trump has gotten too much unpaid air time. Cruz in March said the media was “engaged in a love fest” with Trump — before TV host Anderson Cooper said Cruz had declined offers to be on his CNN program.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-gotten-nearly-3-billion-in-free-advertising-2016-05-06

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
4. Hillary got negative 3 billion free ads. Republicons emails Benghazi ensured emails Benghazi this e
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 05:48 PM
Jan 2018

emails Benghazi would emails Benghazi happen emails Benghazi by emails Benghazi making emails Benghazi outrageous emails Benghazi claims emails Benghazi and emails Benghazi running emails Benghazi never-ending emails Benghazi hearings.

News at 11.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
6. The only people who believe this book is full of lies
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jan 2018

Are the ones who live in the alternative FOX universe, where Trump's unfitness for office has not once been even alluded to. When you live in denial of truth, truth sounds like a lie when revealed.

Imagine their reaction to a few well-placed Mueller indictments.

DFW

(54,399 posts)
7. Oh. That
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 06:53 PM
Jan 2018

I thought you were going to say that the Republicans won three out of the last five presidential elections without cheating.

As a story, Alice in Wonderland was more believable.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,344 posts)
17. Yes, but it was a harmless, humorous sort of lie.
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:05 AM
Jan 2018

Very few believed it, nothing came of it, it was a joke. Even Obama joked about it, about him and Trump growing up together in Kenya.

Torpedo boats shooting at a U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, nerve gas and yellow-cake uranium. Now, THOSE were some costly lies with consequences attached.

malaise

(269,024 posts)
18. I don't think it was inconsequential at all
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:11 AM
Jan 2018

but you make a good point re THOSE costly lies.

I think it facilitated racism like we haven't seen in ages.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,344 posts)
19. I can see that. The lie might have encouraged some bottom-feeding racists ...
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 10:28 AM
Jan 2018

... to dust off the stars-n-bars and parade them proudly. But they didn't require much convincing. I didn't know anyone who took the birther thing seriously, not even among my Trump-supporting relatives (bless their hearts).

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