CNN cuts away from Trump’s RNC speech after tidal wave of “outright lies”
President Trump addressed the Republican National Convention this afternoon and proved immediately that reports indicating he might take a more positive note with his remarks were entirely false. Instead of any optimism, Trump began telling outrageous lies about Democratic efforts to steal the election right off the bat, to the point where both CNN and MSNBC cut away to avoid promoting his preposterous falsehoods any further.
After CNN aired Trump for over 20 minutes they condemn his lies and falsehoods
Cooper: It is sort of all the most recent greatest hits and false statements by the president
King: This is a sad thing to say, but a lot of what you just heard is wrong, misleading, or outright lies pic.twitter.com/Tc6sXT4LUZ
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 24, 2020
The lies didn’t stop there, but accelerated out of his mouth so fast there is no way fact-checkers could do their jobs in real-time.
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Trump then touted the "alll-time record" jobs number of the last three months, which is hugely misleading: it's a record gain of 9 million after a record loss of 22 million over the previous two months.
He then baselessly said this is hopefully the "final phase" of the pandemic.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Tuned in to Trump's first RNC speech to hear him in the middle of an entirely false Sir Story about how most presidents are left zero judicial vacancies by their predecessors.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Trump then falsely claimed that the $28 billion in tariff money given to farmers was paid by China. That's money paid by Americans. (American importers make the actual tariff payments, and study after study has shown Americans are bearing the overwhelming portion of the cost.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
In summary, Trump began the Republican convention by repeating a bunch of his favorite lies.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Trump said "absentee" ballots, "like in Florida," is very good, but "other than that," mail voting is "very, very bad."
Florida doesn't even have an absentee category anymore. It's all called "vote-by-mail." Trump is a mail voter.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
Maybe Trump's biggest lie of all: "The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2020
At this point, none of us should be particularly surprised by this, seeing as Trump lies constantly at every public appearance and repeats the same ones over and over and over again, but it is terrifying to think of how many Americans accept his words as fact — and how small of an effect fact-checking seems to have on fighting the spread of his falsehoods.
Of course, it doesn’t help when networks like MSNBC air the entire speech and then admit at the end that all of it was entirely made up.
Chuck Todd after MSNBC aired Trump’s *entire* lie filled speech
A “speech filled with so many made-up problems about mail-in voting that **if we were to air just the truthful parts we could probably only air maybe a sentence** … We need to kick off with a massive fact-check” pic.twitter.com/DTnjzmpYQz
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 24, 2020
His words are a stark reminder that this election will be both the most important in history and perhaps the largest challenge the American people have ever faced. They will try to throw the pandemic at us, try to sabotage the post office, make us stand in line for hours upon hours — and we must meet every obstacle they put in our way with all the blood, sweat, and tears that we can shed in order to save this nation from another four years of disaster.
