Discussion: Trump Falsely Says 'Only 2000' Kids Have Been Separated From Parents At Border

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He’s giving pathological lying a bad name.

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Ah, only 2000 children have been separated from their parents (allegedly).

And only, what, 2700 folks died in the World Trade Center on September 11.

A few thousand here, a few thousand there. See, no big deal.

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So the US is abusing a couple thousand kids. What’s the big deal?

Meanwhile, the DOW is plummeting–presumably on Trump’s declaration of all-out trade war with China as well as the chaos of resistance to Child Concentration Camp policy. Down 400 currently; negative for the year.

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“Trump falsely says…” should precede any article regarding a statement by the president.

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“Only 2000” ?

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Another lie.

Oh, and? Would “only 2000” tortured kids be a non-issue?

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donnie’s never been very good at ’ crowd sizes ’

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I’m sure Trump set up his family and buddies to short the market yo make money off of it.

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Depends on two things…

  • Who you ask.(Republicans)
  • What color the skin of the kids is. (Brown)
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In the annals of “when you’re explaining, you’re losing”, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a stronger (or more bigly!) case than “well actually, yes we’ve put twelve thousand children in cages, but of those we only took two thousand from their parents.”

#winning

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He clearly is playing to the base and thinks he can ignore the rest of us - let’s prove him wrong!

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9/11 was less than 4,000 dead.

Just saying.

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I can’t think of something more concerning than a law enforcement officer suggesting that their going to use their powers to affect an election!” Inspector General Horowitz on what was going on with numerous people regarding my election. A Rigged Witch Hunt!p

what the fuck is wrong with this guy

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Only 2000?

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What isn’t?

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He’s still breathing

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Maddow explained the other night that she rarely shows quotes or clips of Trump on her show because she likes to offer her viewers actual facts.

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Trump didn’t compose a number of of these tweets. So even his tweets, themselves, are fraudulent.

ETA. I’m betting he didn’t compose tweets 3-5. Five, especially, is grammatically sophisticated. 1 and 2 are difficult to attribute. Like his books, lots of his tweets are “ghost written”. Tres triste.

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I think it’s essential to show Trump. What’s not necessary is to invite any of his flacks on.

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