The score as it stands: Truth=1/Dan lying=22. Let us continue (keep in mind this is about "actual wrongdoing". Thus, when Dan lies, it's about whether or not his point is a legit case of "actual wrongdoing" or not):
21. "increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion"
Actually, it's more like $7 trillion, but what's a trillion here or there in this day and age, right? Well, one more trillion makes Trump seem worse than he is, as if $7 trillion isn't bad enough. But enough of that. I give this one a "true" but with a caveat: His promise of debt reduction was based on two terms. He was robbed of the second one. Also, the pandemic added about $4 trillion to Trump's previous total. Still too much for my taste. So despite the fact that he, along with Congress, spent money like a drunken Democrat, one must pump the brakes when considering what his intentions were for a second term. Now we'll likely never know and we can't know if any of it would've reduced the debt like he promised to do. Regardless of his otherwise stellar record of promise keeping, and my great distaste for his spending, I give this a mark on the truth side. (Oh yeah...I consider spending my money an actual wrongdoing.)
Truth=2/Dan lying=22
22. "had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history"
This is only "wrongdoing" if one believes trade deficits are a problem. In this Trump is wrong. But being wrong isn't the same as "wrongdoing".
Truth=2/Dan lying=23
23. "called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers"
Four people, including big Trump fan John Bolton, were there where Trump was said by "anonymous sources" to have made the above charges and insist Trump never said any such thing. Therefore, we have a "he said/she said" situation with no absolute confirmation one way or another. The lie here, then, is Dan insisting it happened in order to add to his list of Trumps "actual wrongdoings". Nonetheless, despite that being good enough to go in the lie column, I'm going to grade this as "undecided".
Undecided
24. "coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist"
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/
Truth=2/Dan lying=24
25. "refused to concede the 2020 election"
Truth=2/Dan lying=25
26. "in 2022, STILL refusing to concede the 2020 election"
Truth=2/Dan lying=26
27. "is calling to overturn the Constitution to reinstate him STILL"
https://thenewamerican.com/did-trump-really-call-for-the-termination-of-the-constitution/
This is two lies. The first, that Trump actually called for the overturning of the Constitution, and secondly that Trump's actual words in any way constitute wrongdoing because it's based on his acknowledgement of the fraudulence which cost him the 2020 election.
Truth=2/Dan lying=28
28. "hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House"
Not "wrongdoing" even if they were indeed unqualified. He can believe differently. That's not "wrongdoing". Dan saying it is is.
Truth=2/Dan lying=29
29. "walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl"
This one is just stupid.
Truth=2/Dan lying=30
30. "called neo-Nazis “very fine people"
I almost want to give this two in the lie column. Can a neo-nazi be a very fine person despite holding nazi positions? Well, Dan believes homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and cross-dressing men twerking in front of small children are “very fine people", so why not? If the sexual perverts Dan defends can be “very fine people" despite their perversions, why not neo-nazis? Do they not love their children? Do they not give to causes in which they believe and help out those they regard as needy? So even if he actually said this, it would not constitute "wrongdoing" unless he was promoting the tenets of "neo-nazism". Two lies.
Truth=2/Dan lying=32
31. "suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID"
This is another two-fer. First, he didn't say this, so that's a lie. What he did say, in his clumsy manner, was related to medical reality regarding the use of disinfectants internally to treat disease.
Truth=2/Dan lying=34
32. "abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey"
https://www.startribune.com/the-kurds-are-not-our-allies-but-turkey-is/564064442/
As the above link informs, Turkey is our ally, not the Kurds. But the wrongdoing is not in leaving the area and thus the Kurds to deal with Turkey, but collateral concerns...meaning the manner in which Trump did it. I'm giving this to the truth column, despite the partisan but uninformed false description of the Kurds as our allies. At the worst, we left two "allies" to settle the differences between them on their own.
Truth=3/Dan lying=34
That's gonna be it for now. There's quite a bit more left of the first comment before I move the rest. So far, it's looking really bad for Dan as he's exposed himself as the liar we know him to be.
I have to point out, if readers haven't gathered it already, I've added to the lies column points for stating what has been demonstrated to be false, such as the bleach thing, in addition to whether or not wrongdoing by Trump was perpetrated. I simply can't allow Dan to continue promoting proven lies.
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