Saturday, December 22, 2018

Trump Lies Last Week

So I have my list, but I have to note here that this was a crazy ass week, many not with lies, but with general freak outs.

First, he pulled out of Syria over the objections of his cabinet (which doesn't bug me) - at the request of the Autocrat of Turkey so Erdogan, can that he can start a war against the Kurds  - our allies against ISIS (which is a chicken shit move and does bug me).

Then he announced a pull out of 7,000 troops from Afghanistan (again - I applaud that), but without telling our 46 allies, many with boots on the ground in Afghanistan. He just is a shitty ally and person.

The Secretary of Defense (Mad Dog) Mattis quit over these moves. Or maybe because Trump tweeted these moves without talking to him or maybe he was just feed up. The coordinator from America to the allies against ISIS quit over this as well.

The cabinet is now light a Secretary of Defense, a Secretary of the Interior (Zinke quit with the feds fast on his tail), an Attorney General, A Director of the EPA and a Chief of Staff. The President's Foundation closed due to a "persistent history of unethical and illegal transactions". He used it like his own personal piggy bank and lied about it. Which is amazing considering how much news inches FOX gave to the Clinton Foundation which has never been found guilty of anything!

Also, the Canadian executed an arrest warrant for a Chinese national at a telephonics company that the Administration believes violated the Iran sanctions. Trump - in a move that is super illegal and shady - offers to trade the arrest for a deal on the trade war. So we are now, LITERALLY, kidnapping Vice-Presidents in order to influence trade negotiations.  China has - not surprisingly - reciprocated by arresting 3 Canadians and hold them in horrible conditions.

Anyway, here is a not-exhaustive list of what pissed me the fuck off this week.


Date Trump Truth
16-Dec Twitter meltdown over NBC and SNL. "Should be tested in the courts?" Apparently the President is unaware of how Freedom of the Press works.
16-Dec Twitter: "Remember, Michael Cohen only became a “Rat” after the FBI did something which was absolutely unthinkable & unheard of until the Witch Hunt was illegally started." "Unthinkable" and "Unheard of".. Execute a search warrant.
16-Dec Twitter: "The Democrats policy of Child Separation on the Border during the Obama Administration was far worse than the way we handle it now. Remember the 2014 picture of children in cages - the Obama years." Nope. Don't remember because it didn't happen.
16-Dec Rudy Giuliani says he can produce 20 witnesses that prove Trump was paying hush money ONLY to protect his family, not influence the election. 1) These are mob lawyer tactics (I can get 20, 30 as many witnesses as you want…) 2) If it was "hush" money to keep this from Melania, how many people did he tell. Normally you keep this kind of secret.
16-Dec Twitter: Trump offers to intervene (interfere) in military case where a US Green Beret ("war hero") is charges with killing a Taliban Bomb Maker. So this is a difficult case. The American stated - as he applied to the CIA - he killed a Taliban prisoner AFTER he was released from custody. The government didn't hire him for the CIA, but only reprimanded him (no loss of pay or rank). But then he repeated / bragged about what he did on FOX news. So the military really had no choice but to charge him. Trump's interference in Military Justice is problematic.
17-Dec Twitter: "The DEDUCTIBLE which comes with Obamacare is so high that it is practically not even useable! Hurts families badly. We have a chance, working with the Democrats, to deliver great HealthCare! A confirming Supreme Court Decision will lead to GREAT HealthCare results for Americans!" Okay, I think he is just stupid here. The DEDUCTIBLE is how much one pays before insurance kicks in, and varies depending on which insurance you buy. I think he means the cost of insurance, which is increasing because of a) his stated goal of killing Obamacare by mis-management and b) by the Republican tax-law which removed the requirement to pay for insurance from all Americans.
17-Dec Another tin-pot dictator push to try and force monetary policy to conform to his re-election cycle. Unique in American history (no unique in Dictatorships)
17-Dec Rudy Giuliani says Trump never signed a letter of intent for Moscow Tower 2 Days Later: Rudy Giuliani admits Trump did sign a "bullshit" letter of intent for a Trump Tower Moscow.
18-Dec Twitter: FISA warrants are a fraud because Isikoff doesn't believe the Steele dossier. As proven in filings, the Steele dossier wasn't the key item in FISA warrants.
18-Dec Twitter: President is freaking out at Google, Facebook and Twitter today. Saying the are biased towards Dems. Right….
19-Dec Trump has no and has had no business dealings with Moscow. CNN obtained a signed letter of intent for Trump Tower Moscow from Oct 2015. And Rudy G now notes that negotiations happened through Nov 2016 - after election.
19-Dec Twitter Meltdown over his charity getting shut down but not the Clintons. The Clinton Foundation does real work in communities around the world to address real issues. It doesn't by pictures of Trump for $10,000 to put up in Trump golf clubs, or signed football helmets to put in Trump's office.
20-Dec Mattis quits as Trump decides to leave Syria because we have defeated ISIS. Well, ISIS is still around. But this items doesn't really bug me as a lie, because he did promise to get us out of Syria. It is a lie in service of a kept promise.
20-Dec After signing the Farm Bill the President tweeted a video of hi singing Green Acres on the Emmys once. Ooookay
21-Dec Twitter: "The Democrats now own the shutdown!" (this after a series of tweets lauding the Republican House Members for passing a budget with the Wall funding. I bit late. Trump said he would be happy to own a shutdown over the wall.
12/16 - 12/18 Twitter freak-out about "Missing 19,000 text messages between 2 former FBI lovers" This is a right wing conspiracy gone crazy. Two FBI agents did trash candidate Trump before the election. Looking at their text founds no wrong doing. Downloading his phone found 9,000 extra texts (not 19,000) that were not captured on the FBI backup system due to a bug for 5 months (they weren't captured from ANY FBI phones during that time). The "missing" texts were recovered off the FBI agent's phone and nothing incriminating was found. But the right wing news made up a conspiracy theory that the President has latched onto.