Don’t you hate blustery liars?
Donald Trump shouts his lies loud and proud to the delight of his crowd. When his mouth moves, he lies! Will he ever shut up?
Lying is how Trump rebuilt his fortune after he ran through his inheritance of $400 million.
But lying may not be enough to get him a second term, or even to keep him out of prison.
In the words of the well-respected former GOP consultant Steve Schmidt who tweeted directly at Trump during the “Trump clown show debate” on Tuesday night:
Fox News is now projecting Joseph R. Biden is the President-Elect of the United States.
The American people are going to throw you out of office. You will be repudiated and disgraced …
Your incompetence, ignorance, ineptitude and old-fashioned stupidity have caused economic collapse and made the US the epicenter of Corona virus death and suffering …
Mr. Schmidt continued:
You are a disgrace. Your name will be a synonym for losing, failure and weakness.
Biden is crushing you. He cares about the American people and you do not. He is respected on the world stage and you are laughed at like some type of grotesque and buffoonish clown. He is capable and you are not. You attack [interrupt] because you are scared.
Take a minute to look at the picture of Fred Trump on your desk. Do you think he would be surprised by your Failures? …He bailed you out repeatedly. He bailed you out because you couldn’t cut it as anything other than a con man …
The whole country has watched you fail…is watching you lose. We will all watch you return to your golf clubs as the biggest loser the American Presidency has ever produced.”
Walter Schaub, formerly Director of the US Office of Government Ethics, added:
This debate makes me sad. Watching this stupid man monkey around is depressing. He’s both the immediate cause and the symbol of how low America has sunk. The minority of Americans who support this failed president will still be here waiting for another fascist buffoon to support.
Lost in Trump’s tantrum designed to destroy one of the only democratic norms left:
- Trump’s failed leadership on COVID-19;
- His support of Mitch McConnell’s proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare;
- His undermining of the U.S. Postal Service;
- The lying and attacks on our free press;
- The unprecedented tax evasion and corruption;
- Sabotaging the use of vote-by-mail; and
- The upcoming Supreme Court case to eliminate the Affordable Care Act
Rick Wilson, former Republican and a founder of the Lincoln Project, proclaimed:
We can either continue our trail of destruction, paved with lies, fear, and corruption—or we can change course, overcome the pandemic, rebuild our economy, and begin to heal our torn nation.
[We must start by] removing the miserable, psychopathic toddler from the White House.
Donald Trump lied, lied again, and then lied some more. He simply does not have it in him to tell the truth – even when he knows the truth, he chooses to lie. He lives in a sick, twisted reality where his own hunches replace expertise, the best intelligence reports come from cable news hosts, and history and facts are either “fake news” or a hoax.”
Maybe the most blatant seditious remarks by Trump occurred when he refused to urge his supporters to not engage in civil unrest, telling the Proud Boys group to “stand back and stand by.”
Sarah Chamberlain, CEO of Main Street Partnership, that supports Republicans in Congress says they are tired of the bullying, of the harassment, of his rank sexism and racism, of his never-ending stream of lies.
Brian Kilmeade, of the Fox morning show, called out Trump for not condemning White Supremacists.
Even Fox Trump sycophant Tucker Carlson warned about the power of billionaires and the ‘tyranny of selfish oligarchs’ this week.
We are a month away from the election. Let us hope that this election will “shut him up, man.”
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