Mike Huckabee.
These are the “Top Ten Corrections to Lies About Trump That You’ll Likely Hear at the DNC.”
1. Trump’s 2016 campaign did not collude with Russia. They wasted $30 million of our tax money investigating that groundless accusation.
2. Trump did not incite his followers to riot or attack police on January 6th, 2021. He told them to protest “peacefully and patriotically,” and after the riot started, he urged them to obey the police and leave quietly.
3. Trump did not try to grab the wheel of the Presidential limo and force his driver to take him to the Capitol on January 6th. That’s now been debunked by all the alleged witnesses.
4. Trump never said there were “very fine people” among the neo-Nazis at Charlottesville; he actually said those people “should be condemned totally.”
5. Trump did not refuse to visit a US military cemetery in France because, he said, the soldiers there were “suckers and losers.” The trip was canceled because the weather was too dangerous for his helicopter to take off; and the “Suckers and losers” quote was refuted by everyone present, including people who are not Trump fans.
6. Trump never said he planned to be a dictator from day one if reelected. He scoffed at the accusation, then joked that he would be a dictator for only one day, when he'd order the border sealed and oil companies to “drill, baby, drill.” Joking about being a dictator for one day and vowing to be a dictator from day one are two very different things.
7. Trump did not say there would be a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win. He said there would be a bloodbath (financial) in the auto industry if Biden did win.
8. Trump never suggested that Americans inject or drink bleach to fight COVID. Seriously, did anyone really believe that one?
9. Trump’s platform is called Agenda 47, not Project 2025. That’s a Heritage Foundation initiative that Trump had nothing to do with and has dismissed.
10. Trump does not back a federal abortion ban; he agrees with the Supreme Court that it’s a state issue.
There are many other debunked lies about Trump that are as worn-out as Columbo’s raincoat, but if we could just edit those 10 out of all the speeches we’re about to hear, they could probably wrap this convention up in two hours. If you must watch this Super Bowl of hooey, then print this list out and have it by your chair. However, I would not suggest turning it into a game by taking a drink every time you hear one, or you might die of alcohol poisoning.
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“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
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