Fact checking the debate: Trump is a liar and Biden knows what he is doing.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/06/fact-checking-june-27th-presidential.html

What Bothers Me Most

I won't argue with those who express concern over the President's debate performance. He was trying to remember all of the stuff that he'd been studying and trying to arrange in his mind, a lot of information and some of it, in typical political style, designed to sound and be presented like a campaign. He tried to get in too much content in too short a period of time. And he didn't look like he felt well. He had a pre-set agenda and that led to his not confronting Trump's incessant lies with the facts. He is old, he has a speech impediment, has never been a great public speaker and that combined to create a bad debate performance. He didn't help himself.

Trump incessantly and deliberately lied, lost track of his theme, and kept coming back to blaming all of America's problems, mostly exaggerated in his mind, on immigrants coming across the border. His exaggerations are literally unbelievable, his ego-driven delivery makes everything about him, and not about the country, his ignorance of the Constitution and of American History is appalling for an adult American with a sixth grade education and his contempt for his MAGA base is astounding. He thinks that if he speaks, they believe, cheer and on we go.

And he's right about that.

He was appealing to his far right base last night, not to new voters, independents, young people, clearly not to black or Latino voters, and not to anyone still undecided. And what bothers me most about that is that even thought this is clearly a minority, there are far too many Americans who are caught up in that selfish, racist, misogynist, arrogant ignorance, and they are an obstacle to progress.

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1. Perhaps the best way to address all of tRUMP's lies is to simply ignore them, and then mention our own lies,

and let tRUMP spend his time refuting them, e.g., trump: I did this (built the entire wall) Biden: trump stole billions of dollars from the US Treasury Dept and lined his pockets w/ it ETC.

Treat every lie told by tRUMP w/ our own lie. After all, CNN and other moderators don't seem interested in correcting participants from their lies.

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2. I don't see how a decent journalist could sit there and not refute everything the liar said.

He got lucky and hit something truthful once, maybe. The rest was as big a disaster for him as Biden's performance seems to be for Democrats.

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3. I can't either, and CNN's excuse that candidates are supposed to refute the lies is a crock. That's why there's a

moderator. A bunch of BS.