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Wiz Imp

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2. Even with a softball interview, he lied repeatedly

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:16 PM

Dec 13

To their credit, Time published a fact check which was several pages

https://time.com/7201574/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-fact-check/

An example:

What Trump Said: “We had 107,000 when we had the memorial a few weeks later”

The Facts: Trump has repeatedly claimed that over 100,000 people attended his October rally in Butler. Pa., which was held after an assassination attempt on him during a July rally.

Newsweek conducted a fact-check of the claim, using photos from the site, crowd-mapping software, and expert analysis. They found that, if every part of the venue was packed in, the site could still only hold 94,000 people. Photos from the event show tents and seats would have further limited the crowd size. Experts told the publication that the number of attendees was likely closer to 30,000, a figure consistent with an estimate reported by CBS.

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So, I skimmed Trump's TIME-interview. [View all] DetlefK Dec 13 OP

Trump never learned how to run a business, much less a country. He only knows how to run scams. eppur_se_muova Dec 13 #1

Even with a softball interview, he lied repeatedly Wiz Imp Dec 13 #2

It's not that he has no idea how to help ordinary people. It's that he has no interest in doing so. unblock Dec 13 #3