Copied this post from another thread because a reaction to it is more fitting here.
Statements like this really make me believe in the existence of alternate realities, you must be in a completely different one than me David.
In the one i live, Trump does not "say the odd untruthful thing, more or less as an accident", he deliberately lies about almost everything.
It is probably faster to list the truths he states (
5% of statements according to Politifact), than the lies. He is a compulsive liar who would rather tell a bold faced lie than admit he does not know something.
"but he doesn't try to run a wholly untruthful narrative about himself " Again, David, are we on the same planet?
He does nothing else than building up an untruthful narrative about himself.
This even goes back generations, the Trump's lied about their origins, claiming they came from Sweden, later Trump lied about his father, said he was born in Germany.
The whole narrative of being a self made man who started with a "smal" loan of one million dollars,(Not even talking about the disconnect in naming a million dollars 'a small loan') is a complete lie. Turns out it was not a loan, he never payed anything back. Moreover, it was more like 600 million he got from his father.
The image of master deal maker is a lie, evidenced by the many bankruptcies.
Trump boasts to be a billionaire, probably a lie, some say he never earned more than he got from his father, there is a reason he does not want to give his tax returns (the perpetual audit: another lie)
He faked time magazine covers about himself, called a reporter under an alias to boost his fortune, he even cheats in golf, and that is just what immediately comes to mind.
This blatend disregard for anything that is the truth should disqualify Trump for any office, and yet you guys defend him for president.
This does not compute for me.