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The Lies They Continue to Tell About Donald Trump
I knew instantly it was false when the news broke that a pro-life Catholic high school student from Kentucky had mistreated an elderly Native American veteran on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March for Life a few years ago. I knew it instantly. It did not smell right.
Sad to say, many major pro-life leaders immediately attacked the kid. But I knew it was false, and it was.
In precisely the same way, I knew instantly it was false when Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6th committee that Trump tried to hijack the presidential SUV and, in the process, choked a Secret Service agent.
Keep in mind, Trump is the man his haters said could not walk down a short ramp at a graduation ceremony. He is the man they said was so frail he could not drink from a cup except by using both hands.
When it is useful for them, this frail man becomes Jason Bourne—able to leap a great distance from a seated position and at the same time lay hands on the throat of a Secret Service agent.
Hutchinson also told the committee she heard the president say he didn’t care if armed men were trying to get through presidential security because they weren’t there to harm him. The implication of Hutchinson’s charge is that he allowed armed men past security all the better to invade the Capitol and kill Vice President Pence. Since Washington, D.C., has severe gun laws, one wonders why these armed men were not arrested instantly; unless they never existed except in certain fevered brains.
Hutchinson said under oath that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone confided to her that the president going up to the Capitol that day would have broken “any number of laws.” I have known Pat Cipollone for years. He is a very careful man. It does not pass the smell test that Cipollone would confide in the likes of Cassidy Hutchinson. What’s more, one wonders what laws Hutchinson thinks would be broken by the president going to an impromptu rally at the Capitol?
The usual suspects fell all over themselves praising the bravery of Hutchinson. Former Prosecutor Andy McCarthy, usually extremely careful, jumped with both feet onto the claim that Trump tried to overpower his security detail and hijack the presidential SUV. The next day, he backed off and settled on the possibility that the story may be false, but Hutchinson was not lying since she was merely repeating what she had heard someone say.
The goofballs over at The Bulwark did yet one more in a long line of tap dances on the grave of DJT’s presidency. Mona Charen said Hutchinson was a heroine and hoped her courage would be as courageous as most Republicans’ cowardice. Gay vulgarian Tim Miller said, “This afternoon a 26-year-old former assistant showed more courage and integrity than an entire administration full of grown-ass adults who were purportedly working in service to the American people but had long ago decided to serve only their ambition and grievance.”
This is a pattern among the Trump-haters, believing the most incredible things they hear.
Remember the pee-pee tape? They were told Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on the Moscow hotel bed where Barack Obama once slept. They really believed this.
Remember when he supposedly quoted Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini? Trump retweeted an old saying—“better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
It was tweeted from a troll account @ilduce2016. Get it? Get it? Trump quoted Mussolini! Trump is a fascist! We have proof!!!
NBC newsman Chuck Todd said, “That’s a famous Mussolini quote. You retweeted it. Do you like the quote? Did you know it was Mussolini?” It turns out the quote is attributed by the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs to the Sultan of Mysore circa 1799.
These guys will believe anything as long as it works against Trump.
Do you remember when Trump said he was “king”? In February 2020, Trump survived impeachment. The New York Times quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson, “When you strike at the king, you must kill him.” Trump retweeted this. The Executive Editor of Bloomberg opinion said, “When you say the thing out loud: I am a king.” Law professor and frequent MSNBC talking head Barb McQuade said, “This may be the most sinister tweet Trump has ever posted. He is comparing himself with the king and threatening to use his powers for revenge on those who questioned his abuse of power.” Even faded, nutball actress Mia Farrow joined the fun, “You are not a king.” This went on for days.
How about when Trump said he was “the chosen one”? In August 2019, as Trump walked toward the presidential chopper, he was asked about the impending trade war with China. He said no previous president had taken on China, then he glanced skyward, raised his arms, and said, “I am the chosen one. I am taking on China. I am taking on China on trade.” A writer at CNN said, “‘Chosen one,’ then, isn’t just rhetoric. It’s a deeply held part of who Trump is—and always has been.” Radical feminist Amanda Marcotte wrote at Salon, “Even for a bottomless pit of narcissism like Donald Trump, Wednesday was an exceptional day for self-aggrandizement.”
The very same day, a Christian radio host compared Trump to the King of Israel. The Daily Beast then wrote, “Trump Says He’s King of the Jews. The Bible Says Otherwise.”
One could go on and on about the lies they tell about Donald Trump. The Washington Post says Trump spouted more than 30,000 lies during his four years. Even that is a lie.
It is unfortunate that young Hutchinson has allowed herself to be used by the odious Liz Cheney and the unhinged folks on the J6 Committee. Maybe she didn’t lie, but the stories she told are false. In the end, she will probably become the conservative co-host on The View.
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See. Here we have it. You are not responding to any points. Just like always, Gary. People refute you, and you just ignore it. It is as predictable as the sunrise. All you have are snarky comments.
The source merely related the timeline. The timeline is your proof.
If The Federalist claimed that the sun would rise tomorrow, would you call them liars because you hate the source?
Neither is the committee, nor are you.
BTW, I’m not surprised by your response.
He simply rejects the source. I guess he thinks that time works differently depending on the time-keeper.
Too much science fiction.
I interrupt this discussion to tell you all that you need to hear the Victor Davis Hanson podcast from Tuesday the liberal world order. I’m 20 minutes in and it’s really good but he is destroying Lynne Cheney.
In my opinion Victor Davis Hanson and Stephen Miller @redsteeze are the best things the right and the libertarians have going for them in terms of opinion and mucking up the left and the rhinos.
I would hope that lawyers can’t get away, in a courtroom with a judge and opposing counsel, with the kind of unsupportable arguments @garyrobbins employs here. Gary treats this like a “Calvin and Hobbes” vacation where he can just make up whatever story suits him.
You have absolutely no standing in determining what is or isn’t credible.
At this point, your only standard is “I agree with it.”
Arizona Man is starting to remind me of the old saying common among the rednecks back in the Bluegrass: It’s the empty wagon that rattles the loudest.
Now, I think I’ll go do something useful. Carry on.
Stephen Miller redeemed himself for me since that time he let Professor Moobs get away with stupid, baseless comments about President Trump, like “He’s an existential threat to the Constitution!” and neither he nor his co-host asked him to explain exactly how.
oh, and the Jan 6 committee IS credible? I’m sure glad someone thought up “beclowned.” It’s very useful.
The timeline explained.
So, not only was there no “187 minute delay,” the President specifically called for peace TWICE within the first hour after the building was breached: first time at 25 minutes, and then again 30 minutes later.
So Liz Cheney and the rest of the committee and all the media talking heads who are repeating this 187 minute figure that was apparently pulled out of the hindquarters of Lyin’ Adam Schiff (who craps out lies every 187 seconds) are liars.
Now, that you know this, Gary, I’m sure you will stop repeating this lie.
No he won’t. He will ignore this post and forget it.
Max Boot, LOL
The original quote was that you can’t falsely yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If the theater is on fire, you probably should tell someone.
It was merely an example given in a case that was subsequently overturned anyway.
Do you remember when they deleted Trump’s Twitter account so they could lie about and manufacture fake tweets for the sham impeachment?
I know. Wilson really meant it when he said that the Constitution was preventing him from doing what he wanted to do, to which the response from this engineer is “working as intended.”
I’m almost done. You don’t want to miss this.
Do you mean Liz Cheney?
Wait, David French is on the committee? He is the definition of beclowned.
He may have been the original inspiration, although I don’t remember who started it or when. But it sure applies to a lot of people these days!
I would recommend The Great Influenza as another fine book on the topic and Wilson used the organs of power to crush and dissent against WWI. This lead to the pandemic being worse because things like War Bond Rallies were not canceled even as some cities were in the worst of the pandemic.
I was going to mention, why don’t we just pull the timestamp off of Trump’s tweets…oh yeah.
It seems the Supreme Court of Wisconsin agrees.
This actually makes it more likely I’ll vote this fall. I’m beginning to think my vote in this state might start to mean something.
Unless they do all the drop boxes and stuff again, anyway, just because they can get away with it.
You ought to vote. Even if they cheat in order to win, if enough people vote there’s a chance that they’ll end up with more votes than they have voters. It would seem that would be enough to convince even the slow lwarners that something fishy is going on.
Except they’re unconvinced by having like 100 registered voters from one address etc, so I’m guessing they’re impervious to evidence.