donald trump has a complicated
relationship with the truth but is it
safe to say this trait runs in the
family here are just some of the times
the trump children were caught in a lie
one thing everybody can probably agree
on is that donald trump was the most
divisive president in recent history the
man himself made it clear that you were
either with him or against him and those
who questioned his policies or rhetoric
were swiftly and publicly deemed an
enemy according to eric trump though no
other us politician has ever been as
beloved as his father trump's middle son
made this claim during an interview on
sean hannity's fox news show in 2021 he
boasted there's never been a more
beloved political figure in our
country's history there's 75 million
americans who would follow him to the
end of earth i mean they love the man
they love what he stands for however the
facts tell an entirely different story a
gallup poll revealed that trump had a
measly 34 approval rating when he left
office on january 20th 2021. in contrast
his predecessor barack obama finished
his eight-year term at 59
also throughout his four years trump's
average approval rating was the lowest
of any presidents since polling began 75
years ago i'm not a good loser i don't
like to lose it
finally the bookings institute reported
in addition to coming in last in the
overall greatness rating president trump
was ranked by our surveyed experts as
the most polarizing of all presidents
when barack obama became president he
inherited the worst economic crisis
since the great depression however
according to forbes things quickly
improved thanks to the american recovery
act obama signed the bill into law in
february 2009 and by july the economy
was improving according to factcheck.org
when donald trump took office stocks had
hit a historical high second only to the
bill clinton era property values had
increased 20
11.6 million jobs had been added and 15
million more citizens had health
insurance donald trump jr credits his
father for it all we're restoring the
glory of american manufacturing
during his 2020 rnc speech the oldest
trump sibling made a series of claims
alleging before covet 19's arrival
courtesy of the chinese communist party
the u.s was seeing the american dream
become a reality for more of our
citizens than ever before after eight
years of obama and biden's slow growth
trump's policies have been like rocket
fuel to the economy not so fast though
junior according to the washington post
there were indications of another
financial crisis looming on the horizon
according to the outlet manufacturing
output and jobs stalled in 2019 an early
warning sign of economic trouble
back in 2016 the totally debunked
pizzagate conspiracy sprang up on the
website 4chan according to time magazine
it involved a slew of wild claims
including allegations that hillary
clinton ran a child sex trafficking ring
from a pizza parlor's basement a
basement that doesn't even exist a
number of anti-trump politicians and
celebrities were falsely accused of
pedophilia and child sex trafficking
human trafficking had become a partisan
issue thanks to maga supporters and q
anon when he took office donald trump
made it one of his administration's
mainstays his daughter ivanka trump
publicly led the battle according to cnn
she called human trafficking an ugly
stain on civilization in 2017. in her
speech at the 2020 rnc convention ivanka
boasted about her father's role in
combating the atrocity she said i want
to tell you the story of a president who
is fighting for you from dawn to
midnight i've worked alongside the
president as he signed into law nine
pieces of legislation to combat the evil
of human trafficking however it turns
out that ivanka was massaging the
figures as showcased on the website for
congress donald trump issued two
executive orders targeting human
trafficking in addition to three
proclamations observing the criminal
enterprise according to usa today the
outlet further noted ivanka's claim
mistakes nine pieces of anti-human
trafficking legislation for executive
orders signed by trump to combat child
trafficking
over the decades the lgbtq community has
fought tirelessly for equal rights and
protection under the law it appeared the
u.s was finally making real progress
during barack obama's time in office
according to bbc news in 2015 same-sex
marriage was legalized in all 50 states
then in 2016 a series of school measures
were introduced to protect transgender
students but the right vowed to fight
back and they chose donald trump to lead
their battle for many in the lgbtq plus
community trump's presidential victory
was considered their worst nightmare
however they had nothing to fear
according to his youngest daughter
according to mercury news tiffany trump
took to the stage during a trump pride
event in 2020 and said it saddens me i
have friends of mine who reach out how
do you support your father we know you
we know your best friends are gay my
father has always supported all of you
this is like the first coalition under
republicans for pride i'm so excited
donald trump's record would prove
otherwise though by 2019 propublica
listed 31 cases of his administration's
destruction of lgbtq rights and
protections including dismantling
federal protections and resources
banning transgender people from
enlisting in the military abolishing
workplace protection rights and refusing
to investigate trans students bathroom
ban complaints glaad's accountability
project has since provided an even more
expansive list
on november 7 2020 joe biden was
declared winner of the presidential race
according to the new york times the
newly elected president of the united
states announced let this grim era of
demonization in america begin to end
here and now sadly though it was far
from being the beginning of the end
biden won the popular vote by over 4
percent and nabbed 306 electoral college
votes but the incumbent president wasn't
conceding victory according to npr
donald had already falsely claimed he'd
won even before all of the votes had
been tallied with a tweet in all caps
if you count the legal votes
i easily win
he continued with baseless allegations
of election fraud before tweeting bad
things happened which our observers were
not allowed to see his two oldest sons
also bombarded social media with phony
accusations of election rating
and the democrats know that the only way
that they could win this election is to
cheat in pennsylvania
huff post reports that eric trump for
example was busted on november 4th for
posting a fake viral video of somebody
in virginia beach supposedly burning 80
trump ballots the city responded in a
statement explaining that the ballots in
the video had just been sample ballots
the trumps continued their election
fraud narrative though despite it being
proven to be meritless according to
reuters donald and company filed over 50
lawsuits challenging the election and
state and federal judges struck down all
of them in addition the outlet noted
independent experts governors and state
election officials from both parties say
there was no evidence of widespread
fraud
when it comes to testifying under oath
the trump family's relationship with the
truth has frequently been proven to be
questionable to say the least according
to mother jones donald trump and donald
trump jr have both repeatedly been
caught lying and giving false testimony
during depositions so it's no surprise
ivanka trump has also seemingly chosen
to air on the side of falsehoods in
january 2020 carl racine filed a lawsuit
against the trump organization and
inaugural committee the washington dc
attorney general alleged that quote they
misused non-profit funds to enrich the
president's family business he also
claimed the committee knowingly vastly
overpaid for event space at trump's
hotel in washington dc and that some of
the money funded a private party for
trump's three older children ivanka who
was a trump organization executive at
the time was called to testify about her
role in the inauguration's planning in
her deposition ivanka swore she quote
really didn't have an involvement in the
event she insisted she just provided
feedback when anybody asked her opinion
racine's lawsuit appeared to tell
otherwise documents showed that ivanka
made decisions for various aspects of
the inauguration there were also emails
between ivanka and the committee's
deputy chairman discussing event
scheduling as well as emails between
ivanka and a lead producer referencing
multiple meetings they'd had
one of donald trump's military actions
during his last year of office was to
launch a drone strike the target of the
attack on january 3rd 2020 iranian
military officer kasam solomani was
instantly killed according to vox the
assassination risked sparking quote a
major escalation with iran and across
the region at a time when the overall
u.s position is weak and growing weaker
nbc news agreed claiming the attack had
stoked growing tensions in the middle
east meanwhile iran vowed revenge
however during his rnc 2020 speech eric
trump praised his father for bringing
stability and accord to the region he
insisted america was no longer weak in
the eye of the enemy he went on to
declare there was now quote peace in the
middle east and that never-ending wars
were finally ended rachel maddow was
having none of it though the news anchor
shot down eric's claims during a segment
on msnbc saying when he declared peace
in the middle east i am sorry to have to
report but peace in the middle east has
not broken out also never-ending wars
are finally ended there are no wars that
president trump has ended and as we
noted earlier in the program it appears
that president trump has increased the
number of u.s military personnel serving
abroad since he's been in office
during his businessman days donald trump
was famously litigious firing off
lawsuits seemingly at the drop of a hat
however since leaving office he's now
found himself on the other end of the
law
according to the washington post the
former president has 29 lawsuits pending
as of september 2021. and thanks to carl
racine's lawsuit over the alleged misuse
of inauguration charity funds donald's
children are also being pulled into the
legal quagmire donald trump jr was
deposed in the washington dc attorney
general's criminal investigation and
according to mother jones his testimony
wasn't exactly accurate don jr was
questioned about his relationship with
stephanie winston wolkov who was a top
producer of the inauguration he claimed
i know of her i think i've met her but i
don't know her if she was in this room
i'm not sure i would recognize her
however mother jones obtained video
footage of donald jr singing her praises
the night before the inauguration he
gushed what stephanie did here is just
incredible i mean i've never seen
anything like it the outlet also had
copies of emails between the two and
also pointed out that winston wilkoff's
book melania and me references an
intimate white house dinner she attended
with donald and melania trump as well as
eric and donald jr given donald trump's
many international companies and
position of power on the world stage the
potential conflict of interest when he
became president was evident according
to usa today not long before being sworn
in donald explained how he'd ensure his
political and business worlds would
remain separate he declared he was quote
turning over complete and total control
of the companies to his sons but in 2019
an oversight committee examination was
launched according to representative
jamie raskin the president has turned
the government of the united states into
a money-making operation for his family
his friends and himself this is a
complete betrayal of the constitutional
design not according to eric trump
though who insisted that there's never
been in his words a president who has
sacrificed so much of his wealth or made
so many personal sacrifices as his
father eric made his claims during an
interview with fox news at the time
alleging when my father became president
of the united states we got out of all
international business however
politifact debunked eric's claims the
outlet reported multiple news outlets
and government accountability groups
have documented international business
dealings eric trump and his siblings
have conducted since donald trump took
office in some cases the trump children
themselves have celebrated their
activities overseas
when the new york times reported that
donald trump had ordered his son-in-law
jared kushner to be granted security
clearance it caused a political
firestorm elijah cummings chairman of
the house of representatives oversight
committee threatened to subpoena the
white house over the donald's actions
amid accusations of nepotism cnbc
reported that donald's senior adviser
kellyanne conway insisted that the
president had done nothing wrong if he
had acted as charged she said we don't
discuss security clearances but the
president has the absolute right to do
what was described during an interview
with abby huntsman that aired on abc
news ivanka trump was asked whether she
had any concerns about the investigation
into her and kushner's security
clearances huntsman began by saying
there are a lot of people that question
whether you were given special treatment
by the president overriding other
officials but ivanka quickly interjected
with absolutely not there were anonymous
leaks about there being issues but the
president had no involvement pertaining
to my clearance or my husband's
clearance zero however according to
reuters in april 2019 white house
security adviser trisha newbuld told
congress that donald trump had given
preferential treatment to his daughter
and his son-in-law as the outlet
summarized the president had quote
overruled security experts to give
questionable security clearances to more
than two dozen people and that this
included both ivanka and jared kushner
by the end of october 2020 the u.s had
recorded over nine million cases of the
coronavirus according to the hopkins
institute there were nearly 90 000 new
cases on october 30th alone making it
the highest single day reporting since
the pandemic began there were also 968
deaths in the u.s that same day and the
worst by far was yet to come cnn
reported it was predicted there'd be an
estimated 399 thousand total coronavirus
deaths in the u.s by february 2021.
however according to donald trump jr
coveted 19 was already under control by
october 30th 2020 and the number of
deaths was in his words almost nothing
junior made his baseless claims during
an interview with the ingram angle on
fox news saying the reality is this if
you look i put it up on my instagram a
couple of days ago because i went
through the cdc data because i kept
hearing about new infections but i was
like well why aren't they talking about
deaths oh because the number is almost
nothing because we've gotten control of
this thing we understand how it works in
reality according to the cdc an
estimated 545
600 to 660 200 excess deaths occurred in
the united states during january 26 2020
to february 27 2021. the cdc defines
excess deaths as being above the
expected number for a given place in
time and therefore likely related to the
covet 19 pandemic
donald trump has a well-documented track
record of talking up his personal wealth
to suit his purposes the washington post
even claimed for trump the art of the
deal has been the art of the khan and
when it comes to real estate dealings
eric ivanka and donald trump jr appear
to have taken a page from their father's
book of boasts according to the guardian
the siblings reportedly took part in a
fraudulent scheme to sell units in the
trump soho condominium hotel ivanka
claimed during a press conference in
june 2008 that 60 of the units had
already been sold she said they'd seen
quote constant demand since sales began
donald jr boasted that buyers from all
over the world had been rushing to snap
up the pricey pads and in april 2009 he
told the real deal magazine that 55 of
units had been sold however as a later
reuters report revealed their
involvement in the marketing of the
trump soho condos sparked a criminal
investigation buyers claimed they had
been defrauded by inflated claims of
sales the lawsuit alleged that contrary
to claims of up to 60 percent of condo
sales in reality only 62 of the 391
units had been sold which would only be
16
the plaintiff's attorney claimed his
clients had been tricked into buying
properties by the trump's quote
collective efforts to pump up sales
through false and misleading statements
donald trump's finances were under
intense scrutiny throughout his
four-year term with multiple allegations
of his family and friends profiting from
his presidency in october 2020 the
washington post reported that donald's
businesses including mar-a-lago also
known as the winter white house had
received more than 2.5 million dollars
in taxpayer funds over three years
however according to eric trump his
father's political stint had cost the
family bigly during an amped up this
week interview on abc news eric was
asked about the new york times's report
that pro-trump companies special
interest groups and foreign governments
had profited significantly from their
support of him eric swerved the question
and went on the defensive instead
claiming we've lost a fortune my
father's lost a fortune running for
president he doesn't care he wanted to
do what was right but according to
forbes trump's businesses raked in 1.9
billion dollars of revenue between 2017
and 2019. the outlet also debunked
donald trump's claim that being the
president of the united states was in
his words probably costing him from
three to five billion dollars forbes
reported his net worth has not dropped
by three billion dollars since he went
into politics let alone five billion
dollars which is more than he's ever
been worth the outlet went on to
estimate a drop of 1.4 billion dollars
in trump's finances claiming only a
sliver of that has to do with politics
and mostly to do with his lies of
inflated worth and market forces
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