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BREAKING: CNN analysts publicly EVISCERATE Trump’s preposterous lies in outrageous press conference with Canadian PM Mark Carney!
Donald Trump gave a 32-minute press scrum today in which he made it disturbingly clear just HOW out of touch with reality he is, and CNN’s team wasted no time in taking him down.
“He said, ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa hand-to-hand comet every night to come and go from their building in Portland, we’ve got Shimon Prokupecz from CNN on the ground in Portland, that’s not what’s happening.
The White House is inventing a version of reality and then reacting to that invented reality,” begins Edward Isaac-Dovere.
“And the courts have just stopped it so far. We’ll see how they decide to ultimately respond,” finishes Manu Raju, who throws it to CNN’s fact-checker Daniel Dale.
“I counted at least five false claims in those remarks, there was probably more,” begins Dale.
“The president repeated this imaginary figure he keeps using, saying that he secured more than $17 trillion worth of investment in the U.S. In just eight months.”
“The White House itself on its website uses the figure $8.8 trillion, so just over half of the one the president keeps citing, and even that $8 trillion is a wild exaggeration. It includes a bunch of vague promises, a bunch vague statements from foreign countries and companies that I wouldn’t say even rise to the level of promises, accounts hundreds of billions in promised trade expansion as investment. So even the much smaller figure is not right.”
“The president also said that under his leadership with his guard deployment and takeover of DC law enforcement, nobody is being shot now in Washington, DC. It is true that crime is down in DC, but it hasn’t vanished, as he keeps claiming. In fact, just this morning, the Washington Post ran a headline that said, three people found fatally shot in D.C. in three days. Some shootings do continue.”
“The president also made just an absurd claim that he saved at least 100,000 lives with a smattering of military strikes on alleged drug boats on Venezuela in the Caribbean.”
“Now, aside from the fact that we don’t have firm evidence of what was on these boats, aside from that fact that fentanyl, the most deadly of these synthetic opioids that is killing Americans, is generally brought over the border by Americans, the land border rather than on boats from Venezuela, it is just absurd to say 100,000 lives because there were well under 100,00 total overdose deaths in the U.S. last year. So the notion that 100, 000 lives were saved by striking four or five boats is simply not credible.”
“And the president also talking about his trade deal with the European Union repeated claim that before this deal. The U.S. couldn’t sell any agriculture to the EU. Of more than $12 billion worth of farm products to the EU last year before the trade deal. The EU was the fourth biggest buyer in the world of these products.”
Donald Trump is lying his ass off, every second of every day, and his absolutely insane, entirely baseless assertions are accepted as gospel without a second thought by his loyal masses. It’s up to fact checkers in the media to hold him accountable; we cannot allow Donald Trump to rewrite reality to suit his horrifying delusions.
Rockaway Primetime Reporting RPR