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malaise

(268,600 posts)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:26 AM Oct 2016

Hillary must call him out on his lies tomorrow night

Fact checkers have proven that 91% of what he spews are lies.
believe a word you say.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/31/ninety-one-percent-donald-trump-false.html
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Politicians running for president are graded by Politfact and the order runs in the way you would expect it to if you find yourself annoyed when Donald Trump is speaking. Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, is at the bottom of the list with a sad 9% of true or mostly true statements. Just 9% of the things Donald Trump says are mostly related to the truth.

Trump lies so much that in 2015, Politifact awarded him the Lie of the Year for numerous statements he made, because the team couldn’t pick the most egregious lie. Out of 77 statements checked, 76 of them were found to be mostly false to false to pants on fire lies.

The Trump truth chart via Politifact:

Chart from Politifact Personalities

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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. I'm sure that she will hit him with facts but it won't matter one bit.
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:28 AM
Oct 2016

His followers do not care, and the rest should have made up their minds already. But do not be surprised if Trump tosses out something new that has been passed along to him by outside sources. Factual or not, it will likely happen.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
2. Disagree. There are too many of them. And that's being reactive allowing him
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:30 AM
Oct 2016

to dictate what she wants to say.

She needs to ignore him as much as possible and get back to whatever the topic is that addresses issues in American voters' lives.

Edit- and even if she does "fact check" him on a handful of things he'll just spew another dozen lies.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. I agree - If she stays focussed on issues of importance to voters, it doesn't matter what he says
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:32 AM
Oct 2016

Nobody wants to watch the candidates exchanging "You are a liar!" "No, YOU are a liar!" - Regardless of which one of them is factually correct, it's just a huge turn off.

Orrex

(63,157 posts)
11. 100% correct
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 12:52 PM
Oct 2016

The media would also paint it as a he said/she said disagreement, and they would offer up some misstatement by Clinton as proof that "both candidates have trouble with the truth."

Further, they'd spin it into the ongoing bullshit narrative that Clinton is "untrustworthy and dishonest."


It would be a much better strategy for her to advance her own position rather than dismantling his, which in an ideal world would be handled by journalists.

In an ideal world.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
4. She will not have another, better opportunity do do so, nor another face-to-face
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:33 AM
Oct 2016

All of the insiders and armchair speculators have been saying that she was going to "let Trump be Trump" and then take him down at the third debate. If it's true, it's a sound strategy. He's going to feel the same way about her. No matter how effed up his campaign may be, Bannon and Ailes know that this is his last stand with the "undecideds." His base could give a rat's ass, they've stuck by him through every outrage. Clinton can take him down, and unless he has something brand new other than Bill and Monica and emails and Benghazi, which haven't inflicted the damage he's hoped for, he will be going down. The Wall Street transcripts made news, but they seem to have done no lasting damage, and he certainly did not get a bounce from their release. His base has kept him afloat. That's it.

kimbutgar

(21,030 posts)
5. Chris Wallace is going to throw the debate towards cheeto
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:34 AM
Oct 2016

This is not going to be a fair debate, the fix is in for Cheeto.

He has the questions already and Ailes is coaching him on the responses. Watch for the prepared presidential Cheeto.

 

skwira001

(45 posts)
6. Alternative reality
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:34 AM
Oct 2016

I don't know how you do that because she needs to tell what she's for and then keep up with all his falsehoods in a 2 minute response.

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still_one

(92,055 posts)
8. you are right, and she will, but she will have to do it even more since the fox news has already
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:38 AM
Oct 2016

said he won't

RexCasual

(171 posts)
9. I'd like to hear her tell Donald. . .
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 12:41 PM
Oct 2016

that he claimed the Republican Primary was fixed. And then he won, bigly, and never mentioned it again.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. All she needs to do is smile, wave, and think of who she'll hire for White House pastry chef.
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 12:45 PM
Oct 2016

Don't give in to yelling, don't worry about a thing. Have a glass of wine and stroll out on stage.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
13. most americans
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 02:01 PM
Oct 2016

already know who they will vote for, does anyone think that's correct? Undecideds are a small fraction of the voting public, at this stage, I would hope.

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