RNC Night Three, A Few of the Biggest Lies

[jpn]

The whole night was so full of lies it would take pages and pages to catalogue them all. These are just a few from just Pence's speech:

From Pence speech:

“Dave Patrick Underwood was an officer of the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service, who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California.” --Pence

Pence uttered this line while referring to “violence and chaos in the streets of our major cities,” so many viewers might have assumed Underwood was killed by left-wing activists. But federal prosecutors have alleged Underwood was killed by Air Force Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, an adherent of the “boogaloo boys,” a growing online extremist movement that has sought to use peaceful protests against police brutality to spread fringe views and ignite a race war. Carrillo has been charged with murder and attempted murder.

So Carrillo deliberately shot a cop to help ignite a race war...and Pence actively supported that effort.

“Last week, Joe Biden didn’t say one word about the violence and chaos engulfing cities across this country. So let me be clear: The violence must stop.” — Pence

Hours before Pence’s speech, Biden posted a video on Twitter condemning the violence in Wisconsin, where protests began after the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Blake, who is Black, was shot seven times in the back as he entered his car on Sunday, and was paralyzed.

“When asked whether he’d [Biden] support cutting funding to law enforcement, Joe Biden replied, ‘Yes, absolutely.’” — Pence

The Trump campaign is determined to spread the fiction that Biden supports “defunding police.” But that is simply false, according to Biden, his campaign and a review of his remarks. Pence is misquoting Biden, just as President Trump’s millions of dollars of campaign ads on the issue misquote him.

And since this is a lie the GOP just won't quit, it deserves special mention:

“The Obama-Biden administration secretly launched a surveillance operation on the Trump campaign, and silenced the many brave intelligence officials who spoke up against it. … Former vice president Joe Biden asked intelligence officials to uncover the hidden information on President Trump’s incoming national security adviser three weeks before the inauguration.” — Richard Grenell, who was briefly acting director of national intelligence

Grenell jumbles together a bunch of unfounded conspiracy theories that Trump has frequently tweeted or claimed in public remarks. The FBI investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russian entities was not ordered by President Barack Obama or Vice President Joe Biden.

 

[bongsaway]

Trump supporters don't care about the truth, that by now should be obvious to everyone, including themselves. Win at any cost, lie, cheat, suppress the vote, just win.

 

[jpn]

Here's one I really get tired of:

“When our NATO allies failed to meet their commitments as we upheld ours, President Trump demanded parity. NATO members have now increased their contributions over $100 billion this year, and NATO’s secretary general credits President Donald J. Trump.”
— Keith Kellogg, national security adviser to Pence

What crap. Defense expenditures for NATO countries other than the United States have been going up — in a consistent upward slope — since 2014. Why? Because that’s when NATO decided to boost spending in response to Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

 

[jpn]

A favorite old lie:

“President Trump kept his word and then some … to pass the largest tax cut and reform in American history.”
— Pence

Pence, Trump — and other surrogates — have held on to this false factoid since before the tax cut was passed. The president himself has repeated the falsehood more than 200 times.

But in reality, Trump’s tax cut amounts to nearly 0.9 percent of the gross domestic product, meaning it is far smaller than President Ronald Reagan’s tax cut in 1981, which was 2.89 percent of GDP. In recent history, Trump’s tax cut is the eighth largest — and even smaller than two tax cuts passed under Barack Obama.

A big, fat lie, but it sounds so good we'll hear it again and again.

 

[jpn]

“President Trump will stand up against Biden-Harris, who are the most anti-life presidential ticket ever, even supporting the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.”
— Sister Deirdre “Dede” Byrne

“Joe Biden — he supports taxpayer funding of abortion right up to the moment of birth.”
— Pence

False and false. Biden does not support “late-term abortion and infanticide.” Biden also does not support funding abortion “right up to the moment of birth.”

 

[Carolina]

Whenever Trump is speaking I just assume he is telling a lie.

 

[jpn]

Of course it's not just Trump.

Gov. Kristi Noem, speaking at the convention meant to boost President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, warned viewers about “the Democrats and their radical supporters.”

“From Seattle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country are being overrun by violent mobs. The violence is rampant. There’s looting, chaos, destruction and murder,” she said.

Seattle mayor Jennie Durkan's response:

“Her caricature of the great cities across America is not only wrong, it’s purposefully wrong. I think she needs to get off Twitter and get off Fox News and come see our city,” the mayor said about the idea that Seattle, where business continues, is being “overrun.”

“Our violent crime is down 5% this year … people are not leaving Seattle. In fact, our housing prices continue to increase and the people moving here are young families.”​

I live in Seattle. Durkan is correct, and Noem is...well...a Republican.