Inconvenient truths and lies

From Eileen Halvorson

Glenwood

According to the Washington Post, in their respective first 100 days, Biden made 78 misleading claims and Trump made 511 misleading claims. Add to that “white” lies, such as Biden’s claim that he had three undergraduate degrees and Trump now saying that he never said “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton, even though Trump said it at least 7 times. None of them are acceptable to me, but it’s far worse. Trump fairly won the 2016 election with 304 electoral votes (Clinton had 227). Trump conveniently claimed (and never proved) that between 3 and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote to Clinton (she won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes). Our national capital was attacked because Trump insists that the 2020 election was “stolen.” Biden fairly won with 306 electoral votes and 81.2 million votes versus Trump at 74.2 million and 232 electoral votes. Fraud claims were investigated, litigated and found to be bogus. Just one source is BBC’s “US election 2020: Fact-checking Trump team’s main fraud claims.”

The criminal indictments against Trump in Georgia for election meddling, racketeering, conspiracy and other charges are based on more than 800 inaccurate claims that Trump made about the 2020 election. Our justice system has become a “scam” per Trump because he was found guilty on 34 felony counts, even though the jurors were approved by his lawyer. Trump’s response to being found guilty of defamation and sexual abuse in 2023 was that it was a “witch hunt.” In February of this year, Trump declared it was a “sham” when he and his organization were found liable for fraud, conspiracy and issuing false financial statements and false business records. This same judicial system brought Hunter Biden to trial for lying on his gun application. President Biden said he wouldn’t pardon his son if Hunter was found guilty as opposed to calling the process a sham, hoax witch hunt, or a scam. Inconvenient truths do not change with lies.