The truth is not always spoken in politics.
US President Donald Trump's number of lies during his years in the White House is particularly glaring.
Washington -
US President
Donald Trump
did not always take
the truth
very seriously.
In the weeks and months after the
lost election
, the outgoing head of state of the United States spoke of electoral fraud.
To this day, he has not presented any evidence for his incorrect thesis.
Even before the
storm on the Capitol
, Trump had further incited the already explosive situation with false claims.
But Trump did not
stop
at
lies
in other situations
either.
These were sometimes sold as
"alternative facts"
by Trump's team
, even though they were nothing more than
untruths
.
At the very
beginning of his presidency,
Trump bent
the truth for the way he wanted it to be.
On the day of his
inauguration
it rained while the Republican made his speech.
Trump no longer liked that on the evening of the same day.
The
president claimed at an event in his honor that the
rain
“simply never happened”.
It was only after he had finished his speech that it “poured out”, Trump continued.
Donald Trump: US President lied about coronavirus and political opponents
Donald Trump
did not only have
his own view of things
on such trivial topics as the weather.
When it
comes to the corona pandemic
, the US president also misjudged the situation.
So Trump came up with several
lies
: the
coronavirus
is
"like the flu"
, the situation in the fight against corona is
"completely under control"
, the virus is
"about to disappear"
.
Almost
400,000 deaths
in connection with the corona virus (
as of January 17, 2021
) in the USA speak a completely different language.
Trump's lies were also directed against
political opponents
.
At an event in the White House, he accused the Democrat Ilhan Omar of supporting the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
To support this unfounded thesis,
Trump
falsified
a
quote
from Omar.
He posted
an
edited video
on
.
In it, a statement by Omar about racial discrimination after the 9/11 attacks was taken out of context.
It gave the wrong impression that Omar was downplaying the terrorist attacks.
Trump put
his
political decisions
in his own positive light several times.
In an interview with TV broadcaster NBC in 2019, he boasted of successes in reuniting separated migrant families.
“There was separation under President Obama.
I was the one who ended that. ”Trump was right in that he ordered an order to end the
separation policy for immigrants
in 2018
.
But at the same time it was Trump himself who had started this policy.
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Donald Trump: US President would rather lie than shine with the truth
Sometimes, by lying, Trump missed the chance to shine by truthfully presenting the facts.
In 2018, the president passed a
law on veteran health care
.
Four years earlier, Trump's predecessor
Barack Obama
had already implemented such a law, and the Republican expanded it further.
Actually a respectable decision.
But Trump falsely claimed that he was the first president to ever implement such a law.
All of his predecessors failed because of this.
In addition, Trump lied again and again
to satisfy
his own vanity
.
In the
election campaign
, the US president stated that he was once named
"Michigan's Man of the Year"
.
Too bad that this was neither the case nor did such an award ever exist.
Donald Trump's list of lies during his four-year
tenure
as the 45th Head of State of the
United States
is long.
With the
inauguration
of his successor
Joe Biden
on
January 20,
a US president who is much closer to the truth is likely to rule again.
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