In September, at a rally in Wisconsin, Donald Trump said: "Trump is never wrong. I am never, ever wrong."
It was a remarkable statement, from the former president: I am never, ever wrong.
Yet Trump, of course, tells lies all the time.
It's an unending whirlwind of falsehoods.
He recently said, for example, that Vice President Harris "wants to legalize fentanyl."
This was two days after the Vice President had called fentanyl a "scourge on our country," and pledged that as president she would "make it a top priority to disrupt the flow of fentanyl coming into the United States."
Earlier this year, Trump claimed that he hadn't ever called for the "locking up" of Hillary Clinton.
He said: "I didn't say 'lock her up,' but the people would all say 'lock her up, lock her up.'"
CNN's fact-checker Daniel Dale, to whom I referred in a recent post--and who wrote a piece which is cited later in this post as well--set the record straight on Trump's absurd claim:
And there are, of course, Trump's particularly dangerous lies.
His compulsive falsehoods about the 2020 election led to the violence of January 6th.
Various administration officials and aides, Trump confidants, campaign staff members, and his Attorney General, William Barr--whose office investigated allegations of vote fraud--told him he had lost the election.
Shortly after the election, Trump's campaign hired an outside expert, Ken Block, to investigate claims of fraud. Mr. Block, who was paid some $750,000 by the campaign, told The Washington Post in 2023: "Every fraud claim I was asked to investigate was false."
Yet Trump continues to cling to the election lies, like a security blanket.
Trump's (and his running mate JD Vance's) barbaric and hateful falsehoods about Haitian immigrants and pets, in Springfield, Ohio, led to bomb threats in Springfield, closing schools and government offices.
Yet Trump played dumb when asked about the bomb threats.
"I don't know what happened with the bomb threats," he said.
Senator Vance, an Ohioan, had promoted the claims about the migrants, prior to Trump, and Trump then seized upon them--most notably, in his debate with Vice President Harris.
The Republican Governor of Ohio, and city and police officials in Springfield, said Trump's and Vance's claims were false.
Yet the claims continued to be made--and Trump now says he'll deport the Springfield migrants, if elected.
The migrants are in America legally, under the government's Temporary Protected Status program, Yet Trump said on Tuesday that they are "illegal immigrants as far as I'm concerned."
Trump has also recently told a number of alarming, malignant lies about Hurricane Helene--claims echoed by supporters.
Here are two stories, from CNN.com. The first, from this Monday, is by Daniel Dale, and is titled: "Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/06/politics/fact-check-trump-helene-response-north-carolina/index.html
The headline of the second story, from Wednesday, is: "Republicans in Congress call out hurricane misinformation coming from within their own party."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/republicans-congress-hurricane-misinformation/index.html
Today, President Biden spoke of Trump's Hurricane-related falsehoods. From an Associated Press story:
Speaking at the White House on the government’s work to address Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Biden condemned the “reckless, irresponsible and relentless disinformation and outright lies that continue to flow.”
President Biden said that Trump should "get a life, man."
