"Time Must Have A Stop"

Consider that Trump, in front of the entire world, just tried to humiliate a former US president on behalf of a Russian dictator hostile to our country. What a disgusting betrayal.

“President Putin outsmarted President Obama,” Trump says, calling it “very embarrassing” for Obama https://t.co/0dfRJg5Yj6

— Mark Follman (@markfollman) August 26, 2019

"Politics stops at the water's edge."

"Don't speak ill of former Presidents."

Do not bear false witness.

Trump statements all fall into one of three categories: 

1)  blatant falsehoods

“I’ll tell you what,” Trump began. “I’ve spent, and I think I will in a combination of loss and opportunity, probably it’ll cost me anywhere from $3 billion to $5 billion to be president, and the only thing I care about is this country. Couldn’t care less — otherwise I wouldn’t have done it.”

2)  sheer fantasy

The question I was asked most today by fellow World Leaders, who think the USA is doing so well and is stronger than ever before, happens to be, “Mr. President, why does the American media hate your Country so much? Why are they rooting for it to fail?”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2019

 

3)  Bashing Obama.

All such statements are lies, but for the sake of accuracy, they can at least be simply reported as Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 or, most often, a combination of two or even all three categories.

Fact checking, refutation, argument, are then rendered moot.  Because, really, it's not like he's ever NOT lying.