Trump's falsehoods show no sign of letting up as campaign enters final stretch

[Dulcinea]

(Yahoo) With the dynamics of the 2024 presidential election having dramatically shifted since President Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, former President Donald Trump has tried to blunt Vice President Kamala Harris’s momentum by holding a series of press conferences and interviews.

But during an Aug. 8 press conference at his Mar-a-Lago home and private resort, an Aug. 12 interview with Elon Musk on X and an Aug. 15 press conference at his New Jersey golf club, Trump proceeded to make dozens of false or unfounded claims. NPR counted 162 “lies and distortions” at the Mar-a-Lago presser alone.

On his social media platform, meanwhile, Trump added to the growing tally of untruths, claiming that the video and photographs showing a large crowd that attended Harris’s Aug. 7 rally at Detroit Metro Airport had been generated using artificial intelligence.

“She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches,” Trump asserted on Aug. 11 in what amounts to perhaps the most easily debunkable claim in electoral history.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump will increase his lying, false accusations, and manipulation.

He will go into overdrive.

[hlthe2b]

2. At this very late date, it is beyond appalling that euphemisms are still used. It is LIES not "falsehoods"

It isn't subjective. Those lies have been documented and validated. Euphemisms just aren't going to make it better.

[catbyte]

3. Falsehoods schmalzhoods, come on media call them what they are

Goddamned LIES.

This kid-glove treatment of that fascist is infuriating.