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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Many people say Donald Trump has lied more than 10,000 times. I mean a lot of people have told me that.
"A lot of people" is not verification. A "lot of people" are wrong about a lot of things. A "lot of people" don't know what they are talking about. "A lot of people" is the type of thing that Trump might say as proof of one of his supposed lies.
I read your list of, 36 I think, Trump "lies." As I suspected, most, probably all, were not actually or necessarily lies. Many may simply be wrong, error, ignorance. Several are probably hyperbole, exaggeration, conjecture. A couple may not actually be provable one way or the other. Some are dependent on what he meant by loosely delivered language such as in his "China pays tariffs." Some may actually be true as in his averring that Reagan didn't win Wisconsin--he said, in a fuller quote that he had "recently learned" that Reagan didn't win Wisconsin in his second term. He may have truly "learned" something that wasn't true.
I suspect that if Trump were to take a lie detector test on each "lie," he would probably pass the test as being truthful on all counts.
The Daily Show is more honest than The Trump Tweets
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I wouldn't say "more honest." Perhaps it is just as wrong but is also equal in believing it is right.
I would say that you are not that different from Trump in these regards. You certainly are as sarcastic as he is, I would say even more so. From the tenor of your posts, it seems to me that you are more rude and offensive than he is. And you certainly are prone to the same kind of "lying" that you accuse Trump of--as I have been pointing out.
Maybe that gives you some kind of authority to point fingers and accuse.