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Donald Trump’s strategy as midterms approach: lies and fear-mongering
It is now commonplace and the normal course of daily life to refer to the President of the United States as a liar (compulsive, habitual or serial...choose your preference).
This isn't some jackass shouting it out during the State of the Union...this is the verbalized view of the electorate, the media, the world.
WASHINGTON – Democrats will kick seniors off their health insurance. Democrats will end insurance protections for people with health problems. Democrats will destroy the Social Security retirement system. Democrats will give illegal immigrants free cars. Democrats will abolish America’s borders. Democrats are behind the latest migrant caravan from Latin America. That caravan includes people from the Middle East.
False, false, false, false, false, false, false.
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Trump has been a serial liar about just about everything for his entire tenure in office, but he has rarely before deployed so many complete fabrications about so many important subjects at the same time.
His most frequent and significant recent whoppers have centred on immigration, the issue about which his base has been most excited, and health care, the issue polls suggest is most important to the Democratic base.
Trump escalated his immigration dishonesty on Monday morning. Seizing on a groundless claim from a host on his favourite Fox News morning show, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in” to a caravan of Latino migrants that began in Honduras.
Reporters travelling with the caravan have seen no Middle Easterners, but the tweet was a way to get voters thinking about the supposed dangers of both Latino criminals and Muslim terrorists, Trump’s two favourite subjects of suspicion in 2016.
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Trump and the Republicans have made repeated attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, with a law that would let states allow health insurance companies to charge hefty fees to people who have medical conditions.
His response to the unpopularity of this strategy has been to insist that “Republicans only” will protect people with pre-existing conditions and that “Democrats won't be able to do it” — even though Democrats passed the protections in the first place and plan to keep them.
It is now commonplace and the normal course of daily life to refer to the President of the United States as a liar (compulsive, habitual or serial...choose your preference).
This isn't some jackass shouting it out during the State of the Union...this is the verbalized view of the electorate, the media, the world.