Trump Lies

Believe it when the filings come in https://t.co/AWFbq8jxGw

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 5, 2024

But unless the subject is the 2020 election, reporters can't seem to say that  :

With that in mind, the Washington Post is reporting that Trump is devoting the bulk of his day calling up potential donors while also putting pressure on his campaign aides to raise more money to keep his presidential hopes — and his desire to remain free — afloat. 

According to the report, the embattled former president is hounding staffers about Saturday night's turnout and pressuring them to get checks in hand as soon as possible. 

Pointing out Trump is in "full sprint mode," the Post reports, "Trump is closely tracking who is attending the fundraiser Saturday, who has given the maximum and how much has been raised, according to a person who spoke to him recently. His advisers regularly brief him on the attendees. 'He is focused on this fundraiser,' one person familiar with his thinking said. 'He has a lot of friends in Palm Beach, and he’s saying, are they giving?'"

And if they aren’t, why not? Relevant question is: where’s the $50 million?

And, also, too, as well.

Trump is bragging someone re-sold the ugly stupid sneakers he’s grifting for $450,000 and the media buys it hook, line, and sinker and gives him the headline he wants and he reposts. On closer inspection, it appears some MAGA troll listed the sneakers on an auction site for… pic.twitter.com/PPsBwd2nnR

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) April 6, 2024

Would Trump lie?

Just sayin, I’ll wait for the FEC reports before believing people who lie all the time about everything. https://t.co/Hrf7e75gZ5

— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) April 7, 2024

Would that our journalists would be as “hard-nosed.” You know, those representations of reporters in the old movies is positively mythological. They barely deserve the First Amendment protections they claim is their birthright. I mean, stenographers don’t claim “freedom of the press,” do they?

Of course it’s the beginning of the quarter, which means by the time they have to report the true numbers everyone will have forgotten this boast. pic.twitter.com/gR0CB4UNbu

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 7, 2024

If only there was some organization so important it has constitutional protections, that could remind us at the end of the quarter.

It’s nice to have a dream.💭