Rick Santorum: Trump can lie about the murder rate because he's not 'bound by all the facts'
Source: RawStory
DAVID EDWARDS
08 FEB 2017 AT 11:01 ET
Conservative CNN contributor Rick Santorum excused President Donald Trump for lying about the U.S. murder rate by arguing that the presidents false statements come from emotion instead of being bound by all the facts.
During a meeting with sheriffs on Tuesday, Trump falsely claimed that the murder rate in our country is the highest its been in 47 years.
On Wednesday, Santorum admitted that the murder rate had actually fallen over that period. But you cant ignore the horrible violence were seeing in our major cities, he insisted. CNN host Poppy Harlow wondered if Trump was doing a disservice to the American people by saying something that is just absolutely not true.
Im not going to defend Donald Trumps recitation of the facts, Santorum replied. I think Trump speaks more from emotional and how hes feeling than he does necessarily being bound by all the facts.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/rick-santorum-trump-can-lie-about-the-murder-rate-because-hes-not-bound-by-all-the-facts/
Kber
(5,043 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)That makes no sense either.
Botany
(70,581 posts)KatyMan
(4,209 posts)nazi phrase "we must move toward the Fuhrer"...
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Whatta nazi nutjob. Typical G O Pee er 'christian'.
raging moderate
(4,308 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 10, 2017, 10:15 AM - Edit history (2)
Thou shalt not bear false witness against anyone. Better start reading your Bible again, Mr. Holier-Than-Thou Santorum.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)the blatantly un-religious and sacreligious dRumpf.
The 'christians' love him, because even though he has zero religion, knows nothing about religion, has no morals or values, he hates everyone. And that's all whited sepulchers like Santorum care about.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 You shall not murder.
7 You shall not commit adultery.
8 You shall not steal.
9 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Someone forgot to flush.
47of74
(18,470 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Oh, the mental image!
hibbing
(10,109 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)A defining characteristic of Republicanism.
With their new "Liar-in-Chief" I reckon they want to own it now.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)but(t), that's his specialty!
47of74
(18,470 posts)Filing away for future use.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... and he can just start a global thermonuclear war simply because he's "emotional" and because he's "not bound by facts".
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Eugene
(61,945 posts)Trump is unhinged, but Republican willingness to fall into line
is truly frightening.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)I thought it was women were ruled by emotions and that this was a bad thing in a President.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)"recitation of the facts" - alternative facts - lies
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)progree
(10,918 posts)BadgerKid
(4,555 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Go sit in the corner, Little Ricky. You need a time-out for a few decades.
lark
(23,155 posts)are what's happening. He hates media because they want real facts and all he cares about is how it feels to him or how he'd want it to be in trumpland. Reality has no meaning for him as he rejects it every single day. All that matters is getting what he wants and he will do or say anything at all, regardless of how outrageous or false, to try and win. Unfortunately, by not considering facts, his lies are thin and easily seen through and even some of his own people are finally starting to open their eyes to this tragedy.
ck4829
(35,090 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)They want two things:
1. end women's rights
2. end brown people's rights
They will NEVER stop a politician who agrees with them on these two issues.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)dembotoz
(16,832 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)"...not necessarily being bound by all the facts."
Next invite you get to trump's white house, Santorum, don't forget to pack some kneepads.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)while conservatives deal with cold hard reality?
But now apparently liberals are so stupid to bound ourselves by facts and conservatives are smart enough to think outside of the facts.
They even have alternative facts.
Frothy mixture should run for president again.
Initech
(100,102 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Liar also works.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)as long as you personally feel ok with lying.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)God kills a bahbee.
yup
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:03 PM - Edit history (1)
Harder than I laughed at assfroth!!!! May I use that? Hilarious.
jpak
(41,759 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)just say that!!! Awesome. ✌🏽😝
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Someone really needs to wipe the floor of a bus station men's room with him.
Him, and a fair number of others, but him for sure.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)But then again, I'm not bound by facts sooooo.....
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Fucking assholes.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)sigh
Nitram
(22,877 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)get in the way of alternative reality.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)burrowowl
(17,645 posts)My jaw drops!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)If that person is the President, they must be removed from office.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)have your own facts, as well as your own opinions.