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Mon Jul 1, 2024, 01:37 PM Jul 2024

602 Lies in Just 40 minutes + who really wants Biden out? (by Seth Abramson at Substack) [View all]

This article was shared by someone on FB, I think you should be able to read it for free:

Donald Trump's Shocking Box Score: 602 Lies in Just 40 Minutes, An Unprecedented Tsunami of Deceit That Is Disqualifying

First, he gives a reality check about WHO is REALLY calling for Biden to step aside, in the polls claiming that's happening.

Yes, Mr. Trump lied every 3.9 seconds he was speaking in Thursday night’s debate in Atlanta.

But we’ll get to that shocking—and wholly unprecedented—revelation in a moment.

We begin, instead, with major breaking news that’s being reported exclusively here at Proof: a new poll by a U.S. pollster with an “A+” rating for accuracy from ABC News reveals that Trump voters who’ve told pollsters they’re “Democrats” are leading the charge for President Biden to end his campaign—with Democrats uninterested in the idea.


... (bunch of graphs and statistics here that I can't post due to 4-para limit and/or not knowing how) ...

What the primary data above tell us is that the sentiment that President Biden should be replaced on the Democratic ticket was approximately the same after the debate as it was before the debate, meaning that the debate had no meaningful effect on the issue and it is lobbyists, donors, politicos, journalists, and D.C. lawmakers—uniquely self-interested political operators—who want President Biden to end his political career, but not the voters who will actually decide this election.


Skip down to the section The Worst Debate Performance in American History for the really useful stuff, which (when you get to the "Monologues" part), links to the debunking of pretty much every word that Trump said, that wasn't a preposition or conjunction. ( EDIT TO ADD: By "Worst performance" he was NOT referring to Biden. In case it isn't obvious from the rest of this post.)

THEN, he takes on the major media outlets for failing to communicate the magnitude of Trump's lies, or that it happened at all. He even takes on CNN for only calling out 30. (ONLY 30.) (To be fair to CNN, Abramson counted every time Trump stated a lie; CNN did not count duplicates. But still, I think Abramson mentioned quite a few that CNN missed entirely; not to mention that CNN stretched quite a bit for a modicum of false equivalency, for example when they said that Biden had "baselessly" claimed that Trump would destroy Social Security - such a claim is not baseless at all - a quick Google will clear that up.)

I regret that I can share but 4 paragraphs (and I never figured out how that applies when one sentence is set apart as a "paragraph" ). This article is quite long, but worth the read, or at least the skim and a bookmark, if you are short on time at the moment.

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