ALL THE POLLS SAY WE WON! TRUMP LIE #7000

Clinton vs Trump

 

 

Trump said 12 times, “that’s not true” to Clinton’s statements…but Fact Checkers say they were true.

 

Based on what Trump is saying, I would think that his advisers will try to keep Trump away from commenting on President Clinton’s former infidelities.  He says he didn’t bring them up because Chelsea Clinton was in the audience.  I doubt that for someone that thinks women should remain “barefoot & pregnant”, that was not the reason he didn’t bring the subject up.

 

If he had brought it up, or if he does in the next two debates, I’m sure Hillary will have a bunch of things to offer Trump over his personal life, including his comments seen as deeply degrading to all women.  Whatever the issue, Hillary and Bill have worked out their personal issues and they are still married, while Trump’s indiscretions are well documented by the New York tabloid press and he is currently on his third marriage.

 

Trump insists that Clinton did not unnerve him, but that’s not the way most of the viewers saw it.  The longer it went on, the more exasperated Trump became.

 

The fact checkers have been going crazy as he tried to interrupt her and the moderator multiple times saying  that what she was saying about him was “wrong”.

 

But the fact checkers have come back and confirmed that 12 times he said things that weren’t true, (but they were true) yet they have not found any comments from Hillary as being “wrong”.

 

But Trump did allow that he became irritated “at the end, maybe” when Clinton brought up Trump’s treatment of Alicia Machado, a woman from Venezuela who was crowned the 1996 Miss Universe at age 19.

 

“She was the worst we ever had,” Trump said the next morning on “Fox and Friends”, adding: “She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

 

The Clinton campaign then moved like lightening and they have released a web video featuring Machado, who said Trump called her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”

 

The ad also features footage from the 1990s of Trump saying in an interview that Machado went from 117 or 118 pounds to 160 or 170 and commenting: “So this is somebody that likes to eat.”

 

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Clinton’s running mate, told “CBS This Morning” that the night showed Trump can be “easily rattled.”

 

With six weeks until Election Day, and with voters in some states already starting to cast ballots, the real polls have shown Clinton’s summer lead had all but evaporated. Trump is effectively tied in many of the battleground states where Clinton had enjoyed comfortable leads.  But after this debate, and the next one about 2 weeks away, that could change dramatically.

 

It is interesting that Hillary is called by many Democrats and Republicans the “winner” of the debate, but of course Trump gave Hillary a “C” when he was asked to grade her debate performance.  After grading her he said, “I know I did better than Hillary.”  Even with these negative results, Trump went on TV the morning after saying “all the polls say we won the debate” which is just one more Trump lie.  He even claimed that he won the CBS poll, but CBS didn’t even have a poll.  What he was quoting were these “non-poll-surveys” from Drudge, and others that register their data, then drop their data and re-register.  Back in 2012, Ron Paul also won many of these “non-poll-surveys”.  But there was one real poll on the debate by CNN, and Clinton won that on 67% to 27%.

 

During the 95-minute debate at Hofstra University, Trump blamed all the nation’s chronic problems on Clinton as a “typical politician.”  That seems a bit far-fetched for someone that was a Senator and a Secretary of State, not exactly someone that could be responsible for all the nation’s problems.  I would like to say that some responsibility has to be laid on the Republican run House of Representatives who hold the nation’s checkbook.  Trump found himself mostly on the ropes as Hillary denounced him for racial insensitivity, hiding his potential conflicts of interest and “stiffing” those who helped him build his business empire.

 

As anyone that deals with the public knows, you never blame your public speaking deficits on the sound equipment.  But as expected, Trump blamed his “sniffles” on his microphone, [he sniffed like a coke user] which he said could not be heard very well in the room.  “I don’t want to believe in conspiracy theories, of course,” Trump said. “But it [the microphone] was much lower than hers, and it was crackling. I wonder if that was done on purpose.”

 

During the debate, each candidate tried in a series of combative, acrimonious exchanges to discredit the other. 

 

Trump however, spent much of the evening explaining himself. 

 

 

As we all know, when you are continuingly explaining yourself, you aren’t winning.  All this explaining was about his temperament, treatment of women and minorities, business practices and readiness to be commander in chief, as well as over his long perpetuation of the falsehood about Barack Obama’s birthplace.

 

Clinton stated: “He [Trump] has a long record of engaging in racist behavior, and the birther lie was a very hurtful one.  Barack Obama is a man of great dignity, and I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this was being touted and used against him.”

 

Trump, who earlier this month had finally acknowledged Obama’s birth in Hawaii, replied by invoking Clinton’s 2008 rivalry with Obama: “When you try to act holier than thou, it really doesn’t work.”

 

In an earlier exchange, Clinton said it was unfortunate that Trump paints a dire picture of the livelihoods and economic circumstances of many African Americans and Hispanics. Trump groaned in apparent disgust.  The television networks were preparing for as many as 100 million people to watch, which would put Monday night’s debate in the same category as the Super Bowl.

 

Clinton poured forth with policy details and practiced catch phrases such as “Trumped-up trickle down” to describe his tax plan, for instance — she and tried to sow doubts about the seriousness of Trump’s proposals. She seized on his comments about Russian President Vladi­mir Putin to suggest that Trump does not understand the global threats the country faces.

 

Clinton was measured in her attacks, where Trump was a feisty and sometimes undisciplined aggressor. He regularly interrupted Clinton, as well as the moderator, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt, and Trump raised his voice. At times, Trump delivered rambling, heated and defensive answers.

 

Despite evidence to the contrary, Trump vehemently denied he had supported the Iraq War at the outset, as Clinton had, while Clinton looked on incredulously. Trump sought to blame Clinton for the growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, snapping, “You were secretary of state when it was a little infant.”

 

Near the end of the debate, Trump repeated his claim that Clinton lacks what he sees as “the presidential look.”

 

“She doesn’t have the look. . . . She doesn’t have the stamina,” Trump said.

 

Clinton looked at him with a smile, laughing.

 

“As soon as he travels to 112 countries,” Clinton said, “he can talk to me about stamina.”

 

That line drew loud applause in the hall.

 

Clinton continued. She said that Trump had tried to change the conversation from her “look” to whether she had stamina.

 

“This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs,” Clinton said. “One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. He called this woman ‘Miss Piggy,’ and then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping,’ because she is Latina,” Clinton said. “She has a name, Donald.”

 

Trump countered by suggesting that he had considered delving into the Clinton family’s tawdry past on the debate stage. Over the weekend Trump had threatened to invite Gennifer Flowers, one of Bill Clinton’s former mistresses, to attend the debate.

 

“I was going to say something extremely tough to Hillary, to her family, and I said, ‘I just can’t do it,’ ” Trump said.

 

In another exchange, Trump seemed rattled as Clinton accused him of saying that climate change “is a hoax, perpetrated by the Chinese.”

 

“I do not say that, I do not say that,” Trump interjected, shaking his head — though he has said this several times.

 

This was the first of three debates between Clinton and Trump sponsored by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (COPD); the other two are Oct. 9 in St. Louis and Oct. 19 in Las Vegas. The vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, will face off once, on Oct. 4 in Farmville, Va.

 

So, let’s hope the both of them can stay on the issues next time.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016