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A perfect opportunity to test some of the ideas I wrote about here. It shouldn’t be a total non-story that literally everything Trump says in trying to appeal to voters is an egregious lie. https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=b9e4673ec5 https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1301724853800665093
See, I think it’s an extremely important point, part and parcel of the larger story, which is that Trump’s appeal to military families is a lie and and he in fact disdains them. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1301712507812360195?s=20
More generally, I think it’s completely insane that Trump tells these demonstrably false lies about literally everything and it’s just treated as background noise, rather than treated with the alarm it deserves.
If in 2012 Obama had abruptly started telling seniors he was responsible for creating Medicare Part D, it would’ve been astonishing.
If he was in court trying to conceal years of tax returns from prosecutors, the “what is he hiding???” drumbeat would’ve been relentless.
If he was in court trying to conceal years of tax returns from prosecutors, the “what is he hiding???” drumbeat would’ve been relentless.
I know, and have written over and over again, that Democrats feed this imbalance by not beating the drums themselves, the way Republicans would, but we as journalists don’t need permission from one of the parties to be astonished and fixed on something.
Set aside everything in Goldberg’s piece, for instance, and think of this: Trump is trying to attract votes from military veterans by telling them he signed a bill that created a benefit for them that a different president actually signed. What the hell?! That is ludicrous.
It says ~something~ about national political journalism that Trump told that one lie dozens and dozens of times before a reporter on the White House beat asked him about it (and he walked away).
In a report leading with Trump’s non-credible denial, the Times asserts that Trump has made “veterans care [a] pillar[] of his campaign,” without even a passing note that the main appeal on this score (that he “signed veterans‘ choice) is an outright lie. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/trump-veterans-losers.html#click=https://t.co/MiusvliVYa
![In a report leading with Trump’s non-credible denial, the Times asserts that Trump has made “veterans care [a] pillar[] of his campaign,” without even a passing note that the main appeal on this score (that he “signed veterans‘ choice) is an outright lie. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/trump-veterans-losers.html#click=https://t.co/MiusvliVYa](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhEamx8XgAUZS4N.jpg "In a report leading with Trump’s non-credible denial, the Times asserts that Trump has made “veterans care [a] pillar[] of his campaign,” without even a passing note that the main appeal on this score (that he “signed veterans‘ choice) is an outright lie. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/trump-veterans-losers.html#click=https://t.co/MiusvliVYa")
This is a really welcome challenge to the press from Biden, along the lines of this week’s newsletter, but hopefully just a start. Trump is a fraud, his whole campaign is built on defrauding the public. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1301942139769716738
Seems like there should be some accounting in the press for the fact that the incumbent president's re-election pitch is false in every particular. https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1303441902059094016
Yes, this is false, but what’s truly remarkable is that every part of Trump’s pitch to voters is based on a lie about himself or Biden or both. https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1303474633732231178
