solsangraal@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoCotton says Trump’s ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ comment was him ‘obviously making a joke’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down119
arrow-up1216arrow-down1external-linkCotton says Trump’s ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ comment was him ‘obviously making a joke’thehill.comsolsangraal@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI the problem is assuming, in any way, that Trump is a rational actor. When he was in office he lied, what? 30,000 times? 30,573 to be exact: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ I remember thinking it was bad when the entire Bush administration combined to lie 935 times about Iraq. https://publicintegrity.org/politics/search-the-935-iraq-war-false-statements/
I the problem is assuming, in any way, that Trump is a rational actor.
When he was in office he lied, what? 30,000 times? 30,573 to be exact:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
I remember thinking it was bad when the entire Bush administration combined to lie 935 times about Iraq.
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/search-the-935-iraq-war-false-statements/