In comments on the White House lawn Friday morning, President Trump told at least three blatant, major and unquestionable lies.
1.) Trump said the new inspector's general report totally exonerates him and proves there had been no collusion between his campaign and Russia. The report says NOTHING about that. Not a damn thing. He is trying to redefine reality for those Americans willing to surrender their independent judgment to him. (For my analysis of the IG report, see here.)
2.) Trump blamed his administration’s policy of stripping children from their immigrant parents on Democrats and holding those children in what amount to prison camps. “That’s the Democrats’ law,” Trump said, claiming that he has no choice but to enforce it. That claim has absolutely no basis in fact. No law requires such a policy. Such a policy was not carried out under the Obama administration. The policy that has resulted in infants literally being snatched from their mother’s breast is a choice, a voluntary, cruel policy decision made and carried out by his administration that his administration could end immediately.
3.) Trump also repeated his lie claiming that "many many parents" of missing US troops in Korean troops have begged him to recover their sons' remains. The Korean War ended in 1953; those parents would be well over 100 years old. To cite a personal example, my father and mother both enlisted in the military in the Korean War era. They are now 86 and 85 years old. Their own parents died decades ago.
Finally, in comments to Fox News, Trump again lauded North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un, and did so in blatantly envious terms:
"He is the head of a country, and a strong head. He speaks and his people sit up in attention,” Trump said. “I want my people to do the same."
Well, sorry bud. Not in your wildest dreams. (OK, probably in your wildest dreams. But not in reality.)
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