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kentuck

(111,092 posts)
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 05:33 PM Jun 2022

"Just say you are investigating the Bidens..."

"Just say that the election was corrupt..."

The pattern is almost identical.

In the first instance, Trump wanted the President of Ukraine to publicly state that he was investigating the Bidens. He was impeached for it.

In the second instance, he wanted his Attorney General and the DOJ to say the election was corrupt.

In both instances, he didn't need any evidence that either happened. He wanted to convict with lies and propaganda.

Just as he had done a few years ago when he started the lie that Obama's birth certificate was a fake. He didn't need the evidence. He just needed someone to believe his lies and to repeat them over and over.

Even after Obama produced his birth certificate, he still said it was "fake".

His lies are as corrosive as acid.

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"Just say you are investigating the Bidens..." (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2022 OP
K&R to the infinite degree squared MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #1
Look at 2016 Iowa caucus MacKasey Jun 2022 #2
Lies, lies, lies... Justice matters. Jun 2022 #3
I know that Obama had a valid, legal birth cert. from the State of Hawaii. It is japple Jun 2022 #4
Mine too. soldierant Jun 2022 #6
Bought the coffee cup. Obama's birth cert is identical to my 2 kids' except for the names Hekate Jun 2022 #8
Suckers! BidenRocks Jun 2022 #5
He is the most dangerous character assassin in U.S. history dalton99a Jun 2022 #7
With some people, like TFG, presume everything they say is the opposite of the truth. OMGWTF Jun 2022 #9
Works for me... Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #11
Great points. TeamProg Jun 2022 #10
It started long before then ornotna Jun 2022 #12
OK, then let's just say we're investigating Ivanka and Jared FakeNoose Jun 2022 #13
It all STARTED with a lie. KentuckyWoman Jun 2022 #14
That's his MO. Snackshack Jun 2022 #15

japple

(9,824 posts)
4. I know that Obama had a valid, legal birth cert. from the State of Hawaii. It is
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 07:23 PM
Jun 2022

emblazoned on my coffee cup!!! FU forever for your lies tRUMP.

soldierant

(6,857 posts)
6. Mine too.
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 07:39 PM
Jun 2022

The only time I've ever spent that much on a coffee cup, and worth every penny. In fact, cheap at twice the price.

Hekate

(90,674 posts)
8. Bought the coffee cup. Obama's birth cert is identical to my 2 kids' except for the names
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 07:47 PM
Jun 2022

I hate racists.


OMGWTF

(3,955 posts)
9. With some people, like TFG, presume everything they say is the opposite of the truth.
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 07:49 PM
Jun 2022

Shitler told over 35,000 documented lies during his maladministration.

ornotna

(10,800 posts)
12. It started long before then
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 08:10 PM
Jun 2022
On May 1, 1989, Donald Trump, then a real estate magnate, called for the return of the death penalty for murder in full-page advertisements published in all four of the city's major newspapers. Trump said he wanted the "criminals of every age ... to be afraid".[2][43] The advertisement, which cost an estimated US$85,000 (equivalent to $186,000 in 2021),[2][43] said, in part,

Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer ... Yes, Mayor Koch, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. ... How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS![44]

According to a contemporaneous article in the New York Amsterdam News, the ad was "widely condemned," including by then-Mayor Koch. Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America," and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."[45][46]

According to defendant Yusef Salaam, quoted in a February 2016 article in The Guardian, Trump "was the fire starter" in 1989, as "common citizens were being manipulated and swayed into believing that we were guilty."[47] Salaam said his family received death threats after papers ran Trump's full-page ad urging the death penalty.[47]


Central Park 5 case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

FakeNoose

(32,638 posts)
13. OK, then let's just say we're investigating Ivanka and Jared
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 08:10 PM
Jun 2022

I mean ... come on!

"Investigating" Hunter Biden was intended to be a scare tactic to KEEP JOE BIDEN OUT of the Presidential race.
Nothing more. Chump never wanted to face Biden in the 2020 election because he knew he'd lose!

Have we seen enough? I think we have.

Let's get to work and elect some Democrats and save this country.

KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
14. It all STARTED with a lie.
Sun Jun 26, 2022, 08:24 PM
Jun 2022

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/05/08/why-we-took-trump-off-the-forbes-400-during-his-decade-of-tax-losses/?sh=7937fa9333d9

Donald Trump listed $1.2 billion of losses on his tax filings from 1985 to 1994, according to a blockbuster report released by the New York Times Tuesday. Those were high-flying years for Trump, then a young, brash businessman getting more headlines-per-square-foot than any other developer. In 1985, Trump appeared by himself on the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people for the first time, after inventing a fake persona to lie about a transfer of wealth from his father.

Forbes fell for that ruse—taking Fred Trump off the list and listing Donald alone. But five years later, we published an explosive story, uncovering the trouble brewing inside Trump's empire. Leaning on nonpublic documents, Forbes writers Richard L. Stern and John Connolly identified the same sort of profitability problems that are still making headlines 29 years later. Forbes took Donald Trump off its list for the first time that year, explaining that a “decline in Atlantic City gaming revenues, unmasking of misstated asset values, declining real estate values and massive debt may have put The Donald within hailing distance of zero.”

Snackshack

(2,541 posts)
15. That's his MO.
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 03:10 PM
Jun 2022

... & then before he can be called on a specific lie he tells 5-10 more lies so reporters are always in a position of catch up and nothing ever gets the reporting that it should, COVID is a very good example of this. DT was able to lie repeatedly about COVID that it was a "Hoax" or no worse then common cold and he never got called on it by the press. He would go out to that podium everyday there for a few months and never did a reporter actually ask him about it all the while 1000's of Americans in hospitals across America were dying each day.

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