Trump suffers no consequences for lying

Trump lies – say it

I have repeatedly pointed out the media’s cowardice about calling Trump a liar. The Post article cites his “penchant for rambling tangents, insults, false statements and hyperbole.”

At least the New York Times did fact-checking.

Lies. Why not say lies. Why not explore why he lies. Why all authoritarians lie. FFS
— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T21:49:05.851Z

Trump declines to rule out ‘military or economic’ force to expand U.S. in a 70-minute, meandering news conference previewing his plans to disrupt global affairs and the U.S. justice system, with @KnowlesHannah @Cat_Zakrzewski http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T21:58:20.432Z

The description below is better

https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1876675751732298030

Trump’s lie about Michigan man of the year

Trump has told this lie for many years.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1844528239361892664?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

Trump pulls out a news article to prove he really was named Michigan's "man of the year" many years ago. The only problem: The story has now been corrected and what he held up as evidence that his account was correct now reports that his account was wrong. https://t.co/q2vP96az5B
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 10, 2024

The article Trump cited an hour ago to support his long-running lie about winning Michigan Man of the Year has already been corrected to remove a Republican official's lie that this happened in 2013. They are willing to rewrite history to match his lies: https://t.co/bbLbNWlJkG https://t.co/vuaZSbCKet pic.twitter.com/bPoynykalY
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) October 10, 2024

Fact check: Trump's memory fails him again on Michigan Man of the Year claim https://t.co/Zv6gYcG6EJ
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) October 11, 2024

The media should not post Trump quotes without saying whether they are true or not

Trump lies so much I am skeptical about anything he says. The media must do better than this.

I doubt that she said that. Trump lies so often that you shouldn’t just spread his crap. If you pass along what he says, you should say if it’s the truth or a lie.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 17, 2024

NPR documented Trump’s tsunami of lies

Is a news conference full of lies really better than no conference at all?

A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of Trump’s last news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. https://t.co/ftRhC92kpN
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) August 12, 2024

The media is partially responsible for the rise of Trump

They have always given him excessive coverage. They give him a free ride when they don’t fact check him in real time. I strongly disagree with Stelter.

The media deserves a lot of blame for excessive Trump coverage going back to the 2016 election. https://t.co/CBgJR87AEG
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 30, 2024

A worse than usual Trump lie

Why tell a lie that can be disproven in a minute?

The Inflation Reduction Act, which capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for Medicare patients, was signed in 2022. Trump was famously not President in 2022.

All he does is fucking lie, about everything. pic.twitter.com/Hcpm10qwb5
— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) June 8, 2024

There is no value to putting a gag order on Trump with no enforcement

Agree there should be consequences but
1) gag orders and reprimands don’t work with Trump
2) fines have not deterred Trump from behaving badly
3) if Trump was put in jail, he’d act like he was a victim
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) April 14, 2024

Days after a New York judge expanded a gag order on Trump, he tested its limits by calling 2 key witnesses in his upcoming NY criminal election interference/hush money trial liars.
Wed on Truth Social , Trump called his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the adult film actor…
— Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads as jillwinebanks) (@JillWineBanks) April 14, 2024

NEW: It appears as though Donald Trump has just violated the gag order by attacking the credibility of witness @MichaelCohen212 . Will there be any consequences? pic.twitter.com/VvpVnr4SJI
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) April 13, 2024

NEW: In the wake of Trump’s posts about known witness Michael Cohen, Judge Juan Merchan enters an order restricting Trump’s extrajudicial statements. 1/https://t.co/y7pdFkPj3Q
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) March 26, 2024

I don’t think Trump would have helped his case vs. Carroll by testifying in person

Would Trump being there really have helped? He probably would have told more lies and attacked Carroll, her lawyer and the judge. Why think he would behave better than he has already?
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) May 10, 2023

Most Republicans are quiet on Trump’s statement that the Constitution should be terminated

One of the worst things Trump has said

Most Republicans are cowards.

The real story isn’t that Trump wants to suspend the Constitution. He showed that clearly enough when he tried to overturn the election.

The story is that prominent Republicans refuse to condemn the idea of setting aside the Constitution. That is truly extraordinary. https://t.co/xax0PiCF6Y
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) December 5, 2022

FFS. "A number of other Republicans condemned the message, but most stopped short of criticizing Trump himself."

https://t.co/mt7a00tfQa via @politico
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) December 4, 2022

Trump today: When I said the constitution should be terminated over election fraud, I didn’t actually say the constitution should be terminated.

Also Trump today: But there was fraud and the Constitution should be terminated. pic.twitter.com/LDdy8XEBJU
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 5, 2022