It’s Official: Donald Trump Overtakes Ted Cruz as the Most Dishonest Republican Presidential Candida

It’s Official: Donald Trump Overtakes Ted Cruz as the Most Dishonest Republican Presidential Candidate

August 21, 2015 By Allen Clifton

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According to the well-respected and non-partisan fact-checking site Politifact, practically nothing of substance that he says is actually true. Of the 38 comments Politifact has investigated (the vast majority coming after he announced his bid for the White House), zero have been rated as True with only two (5 percent) being rated as Mostly True.

On the flip side, an astonishing 30 of his 38 comments (79 percent) have been rated as Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire. To put it another way, Trump makes serial liar Ted Cruz look like Abe Lincoln by comparison; 9 of the 51 Cruz comments Politifact has fact-checked have been found to be either True or Mostly True, with 35 found to be Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire.

I bet it gets under Cruz’s skin that Trump is lying to conservative voters far more effectively than he is. Yet, despite this horrific record of dishonesty, Trump has managed to become the overwhelming (and flat-out dominant) candidate in the very crowded GOP field. Once again, when it comes to pandering to conservatives, all you really need to do is tell them what they want to hear; it doesn’t matter at all if it’s actually true.

Not only that, but he almost never provides any details about how he would do anything. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen someone from the press push him to provide specific details on how he would do some of the things he’s promised to do if elected and his answer typically goes something like this:

Listen, I’ll do what no other candidate can do and it will be fabulous. These other losers can’t get done what I’ve promised to do within the first few weeks after I take office. I’ll do wonderful things for this country.

While I’m obviously paraphrasing, that’s generally how he answers most requests to give specifics about his policies and how he plans to implement them. It’s actually comical to watch him get asked specific questions, then dance his way around them while trying not to actually answer them.

No matter what ultimately ends up happening as it relates to Donald Trump and his quest for the White House, it is a testament to the absurdity of the Republican party that someone like Trump could actually become their presidential frontrunner and hold a commanding lead for as long as he already has.

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