Trump lies his way through a visit to the border with Mexico as he escalates his ‘emergency’ threat

Mr Trump made the border wall a key campaign promise - and pledged to make Mexico pay for it.

However, speaking on Thursday, Mr Trump claimed he never meant that Mexico would make a one-time payment.

"When I said Mexico would pay for the wall in front of thousands and  thousands of people... obviously I never meant Mexico would write a cheque," he said.

However, this is contradicted by an archived campaign memo from 2016, where Mr Trump outlined how he planned to "compel Mexico to make a one-time payment" of $5-10bn (£4bn-£8bn) for the wall.

The real reason Donald Trump lies

Gambling site takes big odds on how many times Trump will lie in his national address

 VV wrote:
 

"How much you wanna bet he will claim he heard it from Bush (senior) before he died."

Better yet: Poppy spoke to him in a dream. 

 kcar wrote:
 

How much you wanna bet he will claim he heard it from Bush (senior) before he died.
 
Finding the truth in the Trump White House is very elusive... perhaps even harder than spotting a yeti.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

Are the networks going to carry the speech? I've seen two articles stating that the networks want evidence of a national emergency before they'll give Trump airtime. But yes, it should be surreal fun. 



In other news: Trump lies again. 

Trump claims support from past presidents for the wall: Clinton, Bush and Obama beg to differ

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

But at least three of the four living U.S. presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — did no such thing.

Asked if Clinton told Trump that he should have built a border wall, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said, “He did not. In fact, they’ve not talked since the inauguration.”

Bush spokesman Freddy Ford also said the two men had not discussed the matter. And Obama, for his part, has not spoken with Trump since his inauguration, except for a brief exchange at George H.W. Bush’s funeral in Washington, D.C.

Jimmy Carter denies supporting Trump on the Wall:

I'm considering trying to force myself to try and watch, just to see the shitshow first-hand.

Trump wants the networks to carry his speech live. They should look at these charts of his lies.

Flip and flop...
Contradicting Trump, Bolton says no withdrawal from Syria until ISIS destroyed, Kurds’ safety guaranteed

 R_P wrote:
 
Well, maybe he did say to give them a 10% raise and just doesn't realize that means SFA

Trump Brags To Troops About A Fictional Giant Pay Raise He Got Them

Donald Trump’s Survival Strategy: Chaos, Diversions, and Lily-Livered Republicans | The New Yorker

 Prodigal_SOB wrote:
 
Oh noes! Fake News!

 R_P wrote: 
Snopes says nope  

 R_P wrote: 
You know lawyers can and should be disbarred for lying for a client.

Trump signed off on Moscow project during campaign, Giuliani now says
President's lawyer said Sunday no one had signed letter — then CNN found a copy

First-ever Fact Checker poll: Few Americans believe Trump’s false statements

(...) Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans — including fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans — believe these or several other prominent claims by the president, according to the poll. Only among a pool of strong Trump approvers — about 1 in 6 adults in the survey — did large majorities accept several, though not all, of his falsehoods as true. Among the falsehoods tested were four that are listed on the Fact Checker’s list of Bottomless Pinocchios — claims that president has repeated more than 20 times. 

Read the full story — and take the poll yourself — by following this link.