Trump's lies are about life and death now: Earlier in his career, the truth was disposable; as Presi

[Crabtownboy]

FBI Director James Comey said President Trump lied. Referring to a March 4 Twitter rampage in which Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, Comey said he had “no information that supports those tweets.” This is not an alternative fact; the director of the country’s top law enforcement agency has unequivocally stated that the President of the United States — his boss — is a liar.

We should not be too surprised. Donald Trump has made a career out of lying. He’d sign construction deals and then stiff his contractors, he’d deny buying a mansion in Connecticut while spending weekends there, and he’d promise he wasn’t interested in Manhattan’s Lincoln West the day before purchasing it.

It was no different on the campaign trail. Trump started his political career with the lie that President Obama wasn’t born in this country. He has called Mexican immigrants rapists, invented claims of rampant illegal voting and implied Hillary Clinton stole $6 billion from the State Department. PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, judged that 70% of the Trump political statements they rated were false.

What keeps this going is that Trump has never paid a price for lying: Lying as business strategy helped make Trump rich, and lying as a political strategy helped get him elected. Lying when you’re jeopardizing nothing more than your family’s fortune or your own electability is one thing.

But with Trump now President, things have changed. His lies no longer pose a limited risk to himself; they hurt us all by making the country less safe.

Now that Trump has been definitively caught in the wiretapping lie, he’s damaged his credibility as commander in chief. He’s calling into question his administration’s every national security decision.

Trump's lies are about life and death now

 

[Happy]

FBI Director James Comey said President Trump lied. Referring to a March 4 Twitter rampage in which Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, Comey said he had “no information that supports those tweets.” This is not an alternative fact; the director of the country’s top law enforcement agency has unequivocally stated that the President of the United States — his boss — is a liar.

We should not be too surprised. Donald Trump has made a career out of lying. He’d sign construction deals and then stiff his contractors, he’d deny buying a mansion in Connecticut while spending weekends there, and he’d promise he wasn’t interested in Manhattan’s Lincoln West the day before purchasing it.

It was no different on the campaign trail. Trump started his political career with the lie that President Obama wasn’t born in this country. He has called Mexican immigrants rapists, invented claims of rampant illegal voting and implied Hillary Clinton stole $6 billion from the State Department. PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, judged that 70% of the Trump political statements they rated were false.

What keeps this going is that Trump has never paid a price for lying: Lying as business strategy helped make Trump rich, and lying as a political strategy helped get him elected. Lying when you’re jeopardizing nothing more than your family’s fortune or your own electability is one thing.

But with Trump now President, things have changed. His lies no longer pose a limited risk to himself; they hurt us all by making the country less safe.

Now that Trump has been definitively caught in the wiretapping lie, he’s damaged his credibility as commander in chief. He’s calling into question his administration’s every national security decision.

Trump's lies are about life and death now

"The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy." Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald

"On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that "all digital communications in the past" are recorded and stored: Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald

Let's repeat that last part: "no digital communication is secure", by which he means not that any communication is susceptible to government interception as it happens (although that is true), but far beyond that: all digital communications - meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats and the like - are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to the government after the fact. Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald

People often say, they would like to be the fly on wall being privy to such and such conversation.

Welcome to the real world, the Government IS the fly on YOUR WALL.

Welcome to the real world, "you can't handle the truth"....Government officials protect the Government. Government officials in their job capacity LIE to "protect" the Government.

And I bet you thought the Government exists to protect "you"...They are the FOX, and you are the Hen house.

 

[Yeshua1]

FBI Director James Comey said President Trump lied. Referring to a March 4 Twitter rampage in which Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, Comey said he had “no information that supports those tweets.” This is not an alternative fact; the director of the country’s top law enforcement agency has unequivocally stated that the President of the United States — his boss — is a liar.

We should not be too surprised. Donald Trump has made a career out of lying. He’d sign construction deals and then stiff his contractors, he’d deny buying a mansion in Connecticut while spending weekends there, and he’d promise he wasn’t interested in Manhattan’s Lincoln West the day before purchasing it.

It was no different on the campaign trail. Trump started his political career with the lie that President Obama wasn’t born in this country. He has called Mexican immigrants rapists, invented claims of rampant illegal voting and implied Hillary Clinton stole $6 billion from the State Department. PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, judged that 70% of the Trump political statements they rated were false.

What keeps this going is that Trump has never paid a price for lying: Lying as business strategy helped make Trump rich, and lying as a political strategy helped get him elected. Lying when you’re jeopardizing nothing more than your family’s fortune or your own electability is one thing.

But with Trump now President, things have changed. His lies no longer pose a limited risk to himself; they hurt us all by making the country less safe.

Now that Trump has been definitively caught in the wiretapping lie, he’s damaged his credibility as commander in chief. He’s calling into question his administration’s every national security decision.

Trump's lies are about life and death now

IF yhou applied that same logic to obama as the president, he was even more of that then Trump so far!

 

[Alcott]

One of these days he's liable to say "I did not have sx with that woman!"

 

[Happy]

One of these days he's liable to say "I did not have sx with that woman!"

Who is "he" ?

And why is what someone didn't say comment worthy?

 

[Crabtownboy]

Who is "he" ?

And why is what someone didn't say comment worthy?

Because some like to blow smoke and try to derail threads they do not care for or like.

 

[Yeshua1]

Because some like to blow smoke and try to derail threads they do not care for or like.

Just saying that those on the left were not as public when Clinton and Obama were sinning!

 

[Happy]

Just saying that those on the left were not as public when Clinton and Obama were sinning!

Yep, that's true ~ and funny how the war was a big deal when Bush was President, but all of a sudden, Barry steps in and the protests, burning effigy's, burning the flag, send the troops home from the middle east was but a mummer...

 

[Yeshua1]

Yep, that's true ~ and funny how the war was a big deal when Bush was President, but all of a sudden, Barry steps in and the protests, burning effigy's, burning the flag, send the troops home from the middle east was but a mummer...

Especially ironic that all of them supported the wat in Irac, and all thought Sadeem of mass weapons, but now was an illegal war to them?
Just wish that we would have kept say 5000 troops over there when isis was getting formed in region, we could have ended them before anything allowed to happen!

 

[Happy]

Especially ironic that all of them supported the wat in Irac, and all thought Sadeem of mass weapons, but now was an illegal war to them?

Right ~ but then also consider whom the dems are claiming are the "educated" who "support" them....college "STUDENTS" given "class credit" to attend rallies, are supported by their "parents", and barely just learned how to wipe their own back-side. oooh rah, da educated! lol

Just wish that we would have kept say 5000 troops over there when isis was getting formed in region, we could have ended them before anything allowed to happen!

Actually I wish the Feds would do a better job of policing who they allow to enter the US, or halt immigration if they are not qualified to police who enters and deport who overstays; and stop trying to police and provide for the world as American's burden. And IF the US can not prevent an attack on the US, then counter-act FULL FORCE.

 

[Alcott]

Who is "he" ?

He is the subject of this thread. Who are you?

And why is what someone didn't say comment worthy?

Same reason that someone didn't DO seems to be comment worthy; such as, making public one's income tax.

 

[Happy]

He is the subject of this thread. Who are you?

Same reason that someone didn't DO seems to be comment worthy; such as, making public one's income tax.

Making public one's "ANY type of PRIVATE PAPERS"? (Article IV)

Surely you are aware individuals have a RIGHT to the privacy of THEIR private papers...eh?

There is NO law, NO policy, NO requirement that anyone has to make their "papers", or specifically their "taxes" or "tax" return "public".