As I have said in previous blogs, Trump and his cronies have been spreading lies and falsehoods on a daily basis in order to discredit the investigations that are going on around the President. It is to the point where nearly everything that comes out of Giuliani's and Trump's mouths are in your face lies, and it doesn't seem to matter to Trump's base....or Fox and Friends, which has been Trump's media safe haven now for a year and a half.
Trump was on Fox and Friends today, and he told some very clear lies during his short interview to discuss the Inspector General Report that recently was released. Let me preface what is to come by letting everyone know a high level view of what was in the IG Report in case you haven't all seen it.
It determined that Comey, while FBI Director, did fail to follow proper protocol in certain instances, but that he in no way took any actions due to a political bias. The report also did not conclude anything about the Russia Probe. that is a very important thing to know prior to the comments from Trump I am about to disclose.
Trump stated that, "They were plotting against my election." That is a fact that Trump pulled directly out of his own ass, because the report says exactly the opposite. The IG, Michael Horowitz, clearly stated, "We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed." The fact that Trump would make a ridiculous statement like the one above shows that lying is his absolute go to when he doesn't get the facts that he wants. He decides on a daily basis to create his own fake facts, and then talk about the lies he tries to push over and over until people start believing him. Eventually, Trump did talk about the fact that the report stated there was no bias, but he claimed that conclusion was irresponsible and a throwaway line at the end of the report, which is not at all the case. It was a conclusion based on extensive investigations performed over a long period of time.
In alignment with Trump's first lie, came this comment from Trump, "It was a pretty good report, and then I say the IG blew it at the end. The IG report was a horror show. I though that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous." The simple fact is that Trump doesn't like the conclusion because it doesn't follow along with his lie filled narrative he is trying to push, so he is going to continue to lie about it to make his lies truths in the minds of his supporters. This IG report was 500 pages long, and the conclusion he is talking about is mentioned throughout the report because it was extensively investigated.
Then Trump went on to claim this, "I did nothing wrong, there was no collusion, there was no obstruction. The IG report yesterday went a long way to show that. I think the Mueller investigation has been totally discredited." What an outright package of constructed lies that comment is. The IG Report didn't even deal with the Trump/Russia ties at all. All it looked at was the conduct of the FBI in 2016. Trump wasn't president at that point, and there could be no obstruction of justice findings in the report because he wasn't President until 2017. Additionally, the report couldn't discredit the Mueller investigation because Mueller didn't take over the investigation until President Trump fired James Comey in 2017.
So everything that came out of Trump's mouth in this previous statement was an outright lie. That leads me into another answer Trump gave to Fox and Friends Doocy. Doocy asked Trump if James Comey should be locked up. Trump responded, "Certainly, they just seem like very criminal acts to me. What he did was criminal. What he did was so bad in terms of our Constitution, in terms of the well-being of our country."
Where in the hell did Trump get that information? The IG Report is very critical of James Comey's actions, but is also very clear in the determination that there was no evidence that Comey violated any kind of criminal statute, or for that matter the Constitution.
So in breaking this Fox and Friends interview with Trump down piece by piece, you will find Trump's comments and answers to be absolutely riddled with lies he has constructed to discredit anyone who is standing in his way at this point. He is confident that no one is going to go out and read the whole report, and that he can continue to lie and mislead his base and the rest of the American Public, and come out on the other end of this all looking like the Victim.
As I went to publish this blog, Rudy Giuliani started his Fox and Friends rampage as well. He is telling the world that the Special Counsel investigation needs to be suspended and investigated because of all of the damning evidence in the IG report that came out. Once again, there IS NO DAMNING EVIDENCE! Rudy and Donald, please stop lying with every breath that you take.
Keep your eyes and ears open as we move forward with all of these different investigations. Don't trust anything the President or his cronies say to be fact. Fact check everything to get the real story, because if you watched the Fox and Friends interview and took it for face value, you were horribly misinformed, because the President's answers contained far more lies than truth.
DUNK
Trump was on Fox and Friends today, and he told some very clear lies during his short interview to discuss the Inspector General Report that recently was released. Let me preface what is to come by letting everyone know a high level view of what was in the IG Report in case you haven't all seen it.
It determined that Comey, while FBI Director, did fail to follow proper protocol in certain instances, but that he in no way took any actions due to a political bias. The report also did not conclude anything about the Russia Probe. that is a very important thing to know prior to the comments from Trump I am about to disclose.
Trump stated that, "They were plotting against my election." That is a fact that Trump pulled directly out of his own ass, because the report says exactly the opposite. The IG, Michael Horowitz, clearly stated, "We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions we reviewed." The fact that Trump would make a ridiculous statement like the one above shows that lying is his absolute go to when he doesn't get the facts that he wants. He decides on a daily basis to create his own fake facts, and then talk about the lies he tries to push over and over until people start believing him. Eventually, Trump did talk about the fact that the report stated there was no bias, but he claimed that conclusion was irresponsible and a throwaway line at the end of the report, which is not at all the case. It was a conclusion based on extensive investigations performed over a long period of time.
In alignment with Trump's first lie, came this comment from Trump, "It was a pretty good report, and then I say the IG blew it at the end. The IG report was a horror show. I though that one sentence of conclusion was ridiculous." The simple fact is that Trump doesn't like the conclusion because it doesn't follow along with his lie filled narrative he is trying to push, so he is going to continue to lie about it to make his lies truths in the minds of his supporters. This IG report was 500 pages long, and the conclusion he is talking about is mentioned throughout the report because it was extensively investigated.
Then Trump went on to claim this, "I did nothing wrong, there was no collusion, there was no obstruction. The IG report yesterday went a long way to show that. I think the Mueller investigation has been totally discredited." What an outright package of constructed lies that comment is. The IG Report didn't even deal with the Trump/Russia ties at all. All it looked at was the conduct of the FBI in 2016. Trump wasn't president at that point, and there could be no obstruction of justice findings in the report because he wasn't President until 2017. Additionally, the report couldn't discredit the Mueller investigation because Mueller didn't take over the investigation until President Trump fired James Comey in 2017.
So everything that came out of Trump's mouth in this previous statement was an outright lie. That leads me into another answer Trump gave to Fox and Friends Doocy. Doocy asked Trump if James Comey should be locked up. Trump responded, "Certainly, they just seem like very criminal acts to me. What he did was criminal. What he did was so bad in terms of our Constitution, in terms of the well-being of our country."
Where in the hell did Trump get that information? The IG Report is very critical of James Comey's actions, but is also very clear in the determination that there was no evidence that Comey violated any kind of criminal statute, or for that matter the Constitution.
So in breaking this Fox and Friends interview with Trump down piece by piece, you will find Trump's comments and answers to be absolutely riddled with lies he has constructed to discredit anyone who is standing in his way at this point. He is confident that no one is going to go out and read the whole report, and that he can continue to lie and mislead his base and the rest of the American Public, and come out on the other end of this all looking like the Victim.
As I went to publish this blog, Rudy Giuliani started his Fox and Friends rampage as well. He is telling the world that the Special Counsel investigation needs to be suspended and investigated because of all of the damning evidence in the IG report that came out. Once again, there IS NO DAMNING EVIDENCE! Rudy and Donald, please stop lying with every breath that you take.
Keep your eyes and ears open as we move forward with all of these different investigations. Don't trust anything the President or his cronies say to be fact. Fact check everything to get the real story, because if you watched the Fox and Friends interview and took it for face value, you were horribly misinformed, because the President's answers contained far more lies than truth.
DUNK
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