CNN panel catches Trump red-handed making up job numbers from Saudi arms deal

[left-of-center2012]

President Donald Trump has consistently inflated the number of jobs created by the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia — and a CNN panel on Tuesday documented how Trump’s estimate over the last few days has climbed from 40,000 to over a million.

After playing a cut of Trump progressively raising the number of jobs supposedly creating by Saudi arms deals — from 40,000 to 450,000 to 500,000 to 600,000 to a million — host John Berman was utterly flabbergasted by how shameless the president is about making up facts.

“That was the anatomy of a fabrication,” host Alisyn Camerota replied. “His last claim wasn’t good enough anymore, so he keeps upping the ante.”
“It’s a flat-out lie,” Berman said.

Camerota wondered why the president’s voters were so untroubled by the way he lies about a seemingly endless array of topics.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/hes-either-lying-magic-cnn-panel-catches-trump-red-handed-making-job-numbers-saudi-arms-deal/

[jcgoldie]

1. Shocking.

... to no-one unfortunately.

[beachbum bob]

2. doesn't really matter does it? 40% will beleive everything he says, 60% believe nothing

we just need the 60% get off their asses and vote

[ginnyinWI]

3. exactly why he calls them fake news.

As long as his base is with him and not believing CNN or other media, the other GOP politicians either support him or sit on their hands.

It's going to take a change in Congress to start to repair this kind of disfunction.

[stopbush]

4. They don't care about the lies. They believe they're "winning" with tRump.

They’re like sports fans whose team wins a game due to an obviously incorrect call by the officials. They know it was a bad call, but they don’t care if it means their team won.

[BSdetect]

5. He's simply a total liar. At all times.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Trump is an internet troll...

that's pretty much how numbers go on-line if you interact with the wrong folks.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. MSNBC covered this last night.

[gratuitous]

8. Great, you caught him in a lie

Is that going to change the credulous tone of your coverage going forward? "Today the president said 'The moon is made of green cheese,' which some observers think may not be 100% totally true." Followed by clips of Trump voters shouting at reporters about their obsession with "facts" and "accuracy."