Tuesday, June 14, 2016

After massacre, Trump speech takes 2016 race in a scary direction

Steve Benen on Trump's speech, After massacre, Trump speech takes 2016 race in a scary direction:

The falsehoods in his remarks came so often and so quickly, it was enough to push professional fact-checkers into retirement. Trump said the Orlando shooter was ‘born in Afghan,’ for example, which is both untrue – the gunman was born in New York, not far from where Trump was born – and bizarre given that ‘Afghan’ is not a place.   Then again, for a presidential candidate who believes people born in Indiana are ‘Mexican,’ perhaps this wasn’t too surprising.   But this was just the tip of a mendacious iceberg. Trump lied about the number of refugees coming to the United States. He lied about the vetting process for refugees. He lied about NATO’s counter-terrorism efforts. He lied about Clinton’s approach to gun reforms. He lied about the Obama administration’s policy on intelligence gathering."

and as he says, that's not the scary part...

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