Trump spews lies, insults, and conspiracy theories in New Hampshire rally

[riversedge]

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Source: dailykos





Aug 16, 2019 8:40am CDT by Laura Clawson, Daily Kos Staff


Donald Trump’s Thursday night rally in New Hampshire was more of the same: self-serving lies, nasty insults (and misdirected ones, at that), and a plea for Republicans not to abandon him in 2020 in the guise of a threat and a brag. “You have no choice but to vote for me because your 401(k), everything is going to be down the tubes,” Trump insisted. “Whether you love me or hate me, you’ve got to vote for me.”

Trump asked supporters to believe him about the threat to their 401(k)s even as he lied about natural gas plants being built in Pennsylvania and Louisiana, taking credit for projects planned long before he even started running for president; again falsely claimed that China is “eating” his tariffs when in fact U.S. consumers are paying them; claimed credit for the Veterans Choice Program, which passed in 2014; and exaggerated his Electoral College victory, a number you would think he’d get right given how often he cites it.

Trump also falsely claimed he lost New Hampshire in 2016 due to fraud, saying ...............................

Read more: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1879422

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Fact checking Trumps NH rally:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/us/politics/fact-check-trump-new-hampshire.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Bears were shitting in the woods again, too.

In fact, the new metaphor to replace "Does the bear shit in the woods?" and "Is the Pope Catholic?" will hereafter and forever be "Does Trump lie at his rallies?"

[dchill]

2. Truly I say that this is NOT breaking news.

Say Moe, say Moe.

[djacq]

3. And folks are complaining about Biden's gaffes?!

[certainot]

4. are tehy lies if they hear 1500 radio stations repeatedly spewing them all day

and democrats never challenge them directly?

[JudyM]

5. Locking.

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