They barely even fact checked him in the first place. They called him on a total of, what, three things? As opposed to the probably dozens of other complete untruths he uttered, not even just about policy and so forth but actual empirically verifiable elements of reality?
Here’s just what I spotted:
- Lied about not being involved with Project 2025 and not knowing what it is. We know he is acutely aware of what it is, and in fact some members of his staff were involved in its framing.
- Lied about the number of immigrants coming into the country.
- Further lied stating that other countries were “sending all their criminals and mental patients.”
- Claimed people were “aborting” babies after birth (called out by moderators).
- Claimed Harris said she would ban fracking in Pennsylvania (called out by Harris).
- Lied about crime rates going “through the roof” (called out by moderators).
- Responded to this by claiming FBI crime stats were falsified by “leaving out problem cities.”
- Lied about migrants eating people’s pets (called out by moderators).
- Lied about inflation numbers post-pandemic.
- Lied claiming that “Biden” built the Nordstream pipeline.
- Distorted the truth by claiming he won more votes than any sitting president in the last election, failing to mention that Biden still got more.
There were probably others.
He also essentially admitted that his plan for the war in Ukraine was to just let Russia win. That should be pretty damn worrisome for anyone.
Lied about Kamala being a Border Czar. She led a diplomatic initiative aimed at curbing immigration, she was never directly involved in border matters.
I’m sure he was completely truthful when he said he didn’t read Project 2025. It would be very surprising if he read anything besides Mein Kampf.
Hell, I’d be surprised if he’s read more than the Berenstain Bear on audio book
The only way he actually read Mein Kampf is if it came in picture book format
I want this to exist so badly.
Mein erster Kampf
He read Maus but took the wrong lessons from it?
“I hate the art but I love the messaging.”
“Everyone says it, you know Trump really is a genius, they say it. I’ve read all the best books: the Hungry Caterpillar, Green Eggs and Ham, Goodnight Moon. I’m the biggest read person in the country. They say this. The Giving Tree. I hated that book, communist propaganda! Kambala probably wrote it.”
Lied about how much aid the US is giving Ukraine and how others are not. Lied about how the aid is given (it’s in US made products not in Cash, the money stays in the US).
Wait what? Why would Biden build the nordstream?
Go ask whatever parasite is running the show in Trump’s brain - it doesn’t make any sense and I remember being very confused by that claim in real time
I wish they had pushed him harder on the simple yes or no questions.
Also, Harris missed a perfect opportunity to point out that Trump has been the only president that has advocated a gun ban. “take the guns and figure out due process later”
That would make him enemies right in the middle of his fandom.
You can’t force him to change his answer. Y’all think you could fact check trump better live.
No, I meant when he was asked a yes or no question directly, multiple times, he never gave an actual answer.
Oh my bad, I agree on that point. Sort of expected it though but it would be nice to hear a simple answer here and there.
The yes/no about “should Ukraine win the war” he wouldn’t answer anything except that he would end the war. He would just give up Ukraine to Russia to end it, though, and he didn’t want to say that on TV.
He loves backstabbing allies. He’s a dishonorable man.
The Kurds remember.
I learned that what he does actually has a special name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
The Gish gallop (/ˈɡɪʃ ˈɡæləp/) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available. Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper’s arguments at the expense of their quality.
Biden wasn’t a sitting president though.
That’s true on a technicality, but everyone knows what he meant. In the 2020 election, Biden got ~7 million more votes than Trump in addition to winning the electoral college. Trump’s intent was to be intentionally misleading and to twist the qualifications to imply that he should have won last time when, in fact, he didn’t.
It’s a sobering detail of our situation. In 2020, Trump really did receive more votes than any candidate in any previous election. That means a ton of people showed up to vote for him in 2020 that hadn’t in 2016.
He frames it weird (and it sounded weird when he said it) because otherwise it raises the obvious point that Biden also achieved that same record, plus an extra 7 million votes.
True, although population growth is a factor as well.
Like, it wouldn’t be surprising to see more total votes than in 1990, just because there’s a lot more people. Let alone 1890. The “most ever” has pretty declining meaning after going back just a couple of decades.
% of adult population would be more meaningful.
I agree. It’s technically true but intentionally misleading. That said, I think there are other, better examples to label as lies that don’t get into this gray area.
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That’s something a dictator would do. 🤔
Well I demand trump be shut down. For being too old and senile! Bye dementia don
Don’t worry Mr. Orange, I called emergency services for you.
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If you don’t want to be fact checked, maybe don’t repeatedly insist that Florida’s abortion ballot measure will legalize killing newborns.
They should legalize abortion of 78-years old babies imo
Already legal in many states, happens every day. Don’t you watch tv?
The problem is that no one fact checks him in his personal life, so he thinks it’s just a thing his political opponents do. But the reality is that no one thinks it’s worth the time to correct his wrong way of thinking, esp. when he can be a useful idiot and use his wrong ideas to distract from the issues at hand
That vile bitch! “You were talking about the economy!” Let him say what the fuck he was talking about. Take off the baby gloves.
Nope. Won’t do it. He wins and your ratings go up.
No matter how tempting, if this asshole wins I will not click a single post or video passed around by Fox News.
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Crying 45 keeps on crying. The orange shitstain should shove off to Moscow and take all the MAGATs with him.
The first time the moderators countered his obvious dog-whistle lies I was absolutely blown away. You could have knocked me over with a feather. Then I started laughing and didn’t stop.
The correction was really well done and completely natural by both moderators, I almost didn’t register what happened. Love to see it.
Link?
Yeah the baby executioner bit was gold.
THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS
Too bad they let him continue to lie about the thing they just fact checked, let him talk beyond his allotted time, reapond when it wasn’t his turn, and shut down Harris the one time she tried to respond out of turn.
The moderators crossed an extremely low bar on fact checking last night, but did everything else the same way they always have.
In this case his extra time actually hurt him.
All his talking didn’t help him at all. I don’t think the Harris side cared about him self-destroying his image and giving lots for the talk shows later to make fun of.
It gives him a platform. End of story. Every single minute he talks it allows for normalization.
But to who? His cult? They are lost, stop trying to save them. B
This works for some things, but it’s like the parable of the boiled toad: you need to push on the edges of truth, not come out guns blazing with “post-birth abortions”, “Immigrants eating family pets”, and “Democrats wanted Roe v Wade overturned also”
It’s too late for that. We deal with him or he gets back in the White House.
He shut her down twice. The one time was really over the line. But I loved the moderator saying there is no place in the USA that executing babies is legal. Wtf, 9 month abortions? Lol
My mom fully believes this shit for some reason. She believes mothers carry to 9 months and just abort out of inconvenience, and that doctors don’t work to keep the fetus alive out of the womb if possible. She shares pictures with descriptions of the procedures with zero sources beyond Christian crisis pregnancy centers. Or just Christians.
And she wonders why I started exhibiting signs of PTSD before I was even six.
I support it. They have a job to let viewers know that the radical information is not true, and they should not take it as valid information to get worked up over.
It’s the difference between Trump sounding like a maniac vs exposing a controversy. They don’t need to stop him from sounding like a maniac. They just need to clarify that he is, in fact, a maniac.
It’s complicated, since the Harris campaign wanted him to have more opportunities to ramble, interrupt and get mad. They were very much counting on him being himself and comparing that to someone who can speak in coherent sentences without getting mad.
My thoughts as well. Trump did himself no favours with undecideds and independents with his inane rambling rants. For the most part, Harris just seemed content to use her time to press him and let him make a fool out of himself, with only a couple of instances popping up when she seemed to want to interject but couldn’t.
A well executed Batman Gambit in real life.
Donald’s whimpering rebuttal of “but but I saw it on TV” objectively did the most damage to his image of everything I have seen to date.
I’d say it is when he suggested migrants were eating people’s pets 😅
That was all part of the same response and fact check sequence.
This. He sounded like a 5yo.
That’s insulting to 5-year-olds. Many of them can actually complete sentences before going on to the next thought.
My favorite moment from the whole thing was when Harris offhandedly mentioned that his rallies were bad, and he spent a full minute of his rebuttal time insisting that his rallies were awesome, then started arguing with the moderators when they fact checked him. You could see that that, above everything else that went on, rankled him. It really highlighted the narcissism.
The highlight for me for the whole debate was not Trump’s pet-eating outburst but the perfect setup and execution Harris did to bait him into that unhinged rant instead of talking about immigration.
She “invites” people to go to Trump rallies. She follows up the point about people leaving rallies early with a note along the lines of: you’re about to watch Trump not talk about you. Sure enough, he fell into the trap, and Trump talked about what he cared about most at that moment.
Go back and watch Trump. His eyeballs pop when she says attendees are leaving out of exhaustion and boredom.
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It took him like 2 minutes to do everything she said, right in front of him, that he would
You misspelled refuttal. Orange you embarrassed?
What was it? “The people on TV said it!”
He sounded exactly like my grandmother with dementia the day I walked into her room to her freaking out about the postman stealing her cheerios.
Especially from the guy who made the phrase “Fake news” famous.
He’s definitely sundowning.
It still blows me away that he managed to take over the term “fake news”.
It was introduced as a way to explain how social media was leading gullible people into MAGA, but he turned it into a term for persecution of MAGA by conventional media.
It was actually an incredible move. I can’t think of anything he’s spun that well since 2016.
I’m pretty sure Hitler or Mussolini popularized the term (Hitlers translation was closer to "lying press) originally to discredit journalists, socialists, scientists… Etc. Trump has been reported to have Mein Kampf on his bedside table, but I need to actually read it myself to confirm how much of his playbook comes from it. He for sure targets vulnerable, innocent groups (immigrants, women, LGBTQ, etc.). He eroded public infrastructure, attempting to privatize it where he could.
Not Mein Kampf, it was a book of translated Hitler speeches.
The thing is, he looked visibly confused. As if he truly believes that the things he sees on TV are absolute truth.
I was watching it through Dylan Burns stream on it and he said trump sounded like an angry five year old.
Edit: said not sayed, fucken Redneck accent fucken up my spelling.
Yeah this is one of those typos that you can hear ^^
That really showed what a shitbag outfit CNN has become under it’s new conservative ownership group. They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing now.
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
Malone’s comments didn’t resonate much beyond a couple of places: At Fox News, which responded with glee, and inside CNN, where they sounded alarm bells.
—New board member and billionaire John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav
I would like to see any organization actually have journalists or actually do journalism. But my definition of journalism is different from this sociopath’s, like I take telling the truth as an assumption.
Al Jazeera is pretty good with international news. Be skeptical of their middle east news though.
Also Democracy Now. Amy Goodman is still out there trying to break stories.
There are only a handful of journalists left. Two that come to mind are Pam and Russ Martens of WSOP (Wall Street On Parade) who have been speaking truth to power for decades but remain obfuscated like other journalists with integrity.
Obviously these are financial journalists and we need many like them and their courage in the political and world news spheres.
They are out there, but they are the very few.
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Shut HIM down. Lying sack of shit fully believes his own shit. That is strongly indicative of mental deviance enough to disqualify any politician
Ah the ol’ George Costanza method.
“It’s not a lie… If you believe it.”
Eat a dick, cunt.
well, cunts tend to do just that
Vagina dentata that dick, cunt?
“The press is so dishonest in this country, it’s amazing,” Trump said. “Now, I didn’t mind because frankly I was pretty sure that’s what they would do. CNN was much more honorable—the debate we had with Biden was a much more honorably run debate.”
I felt better about the one where I creamed the senile old guy. The one where a younger, Black, WOMAN was awful.
He also said that the full context of his quotes on Charlottesville make it clear that what he’d said was “absolutely perfect.”
It was a perfect phone call!
Nevertheless, Trump claimed the evening had gone well for him. “I’ve been told I’m a good debater,” he said. “I think it was one of my better debates. Maybe my best debate.”
You’re right, you’ve never done better. Way to go, shithead.
“I’ve been told I’m a good debater,” he said. “I think it was one of my better debates. Maybe my best debate.”
Hmm, this is suspiciously good grammar.
He’s a Master Debater
He is steering and planting the thoughts of his believers.
“Maybe my best debate.”
Some person: He must have done really well if he thinks about it that way.
Should have been locked up ages ago, but seeing him this humiliated almost makes up for it.
Oh no. No, no we have a long way to go before anything makes up for it.
