The Top 10 Trump Lies and Why They Matter (With Daniel Dale)

 kcar wrote:
 

Colbert is excellent.   Bill Maher's take on Trump can be funny too though perhaps more partisan.  

I am not sure that any of these comedians are a thorn in Trump's side as they tend to get consumed by the already converted.    That said,  the catharsis is good for the converted.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
A brilliant and hysterical bit. I'm amazed Colbert can keep doing these long segments about Trump on his show. Was this the opening monologue?

I was crushed when Jon Stewart retired but Stephen Colbert is hitting it out of the park. He's probably the biggest and best thorn in Trump's side. 

“I don’t make deals with Saudi Arabia. I don’t have money from Saudi Arabia. I have nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.”

“Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million.”

 hayduke2 wrote:
 

The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products – Mother Jones

Matthew Whitaker lent his name and status as an ex-US attorney to a firm touting time travel cryptocurrency and a toilet for the “well-endowed.”

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Really?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Did he ever have it?  He's the epitome of insanity.

He's losing it...

He lies so much he cannot keep track of them, and cannot tell the difference between truth and fiction.

 kcar wrote:
 

 kcar wrote: 
I think much of his incessant lying is more to create "noise" and misdirection - similar to the way that military aircraft release hot-burning flares as countermeasures to distract heat-seeking missiles from homing in on their craft.  The more noise that's out there, the less attention is paid to his actual intentions and/or actions.

 kcar wrote:

 Steely_D wrote: 

Space aliens and their fiendish mind control? Trump as a malfunctioning android with bad AI? What is the f%*#in' point of his claiming not to know Whitaker?
How can anyone take pride or pleasure in lying so much? This guy is a freak. Have any of us ever encountered a person like Trump who cannot tell the truth for even a moderate period? 

 kcar wrote:
 
Could be something like subcortical dementia, but that's a stretch.

 kcar wrote:
 
I'm thinking congenital mendacity.

 R_P wrote: 

I'm thinking dementia. It would explain a lot. 

Trump claims he doesn’t know his new acting attorney general. A month ago he said he did.

Shapiro noticed that frames in the tweeted video were frozen to slow down the action, allowing it to run the same length as the AP one.

The alteration is "too precise to be an accident," said Shapiro, who trains instructors to use the software. The tweeted video also does not have any audio, which Shapiro said would make it easier to alter.

Sanders, who has not said where the tweeted video came from, said it clearly shows Acosta made contact with the intern.

While the origin of the manipulated video is unclear, its distribution marked a new low for an administration that has been criticized for its willingness to mislead.

“people don’t understand tax returns.”