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Trump took us back to perhaps the most stunning moment of a chaotic and tumultuous presidential campaign: his attempted assassination. "Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my ...
According to civil rights lawyer Burt Neuborne and political theorist William E. Connolly, Trump's rhetoric employs tropes similar to those used by fascists in Germany [22] to persuade citizens (at first a minority) to give up democracy, by using a barrage of falsehoods, half-truths, personal invective, threats, xenophobia, national-security ...
THE FACTS: Trump is correct that Clinton backed NAFTA and China's entry into the WTO, which took place while her husband was president. Yet although touting the TPP trade agreement while she ...
The Facts: Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College by a clear margin, but it was not the largest margin in 129 years. Trump won 312 of the 538 Electoral College votes, more than ...
The Washington Post fact-checker created a new category of falsehoods in 2018, the "Bottomless Pinocchio," for falsehoods repeated at least twenty times (so often "that there can be no question the politician is aware his or her facts are wrong"). Trump was the only politician who met the standard of the category, with 14 statements that ...
THE FACTS: Trump was comparing the crowd at his speech in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to the crowd that attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug ...
CNN's ad campaign "Facts First" was a direct response to the concept of alternative facts and fake news. [50] USA Today listed it in their "Glossary of Trump terms". [51] Both Robert De Niro and Steven Spielberg referred to alternative facts in their acceptance speech at the National Board of Review awards for the Spielberg film The Post ...
Trump said during his do-over inaugural, mentioning looming pardons for those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It was a fitting end to a campaign season that included four indictments, one ...