This Week: Top 3 Trump Lies

Sept. 1, 2024 - Sept. 7, 2024

Disclaimer: I can’t possibly keep up with all of Donald Trump’s lies. This is merely a compendium of the three most egregious lies of the past week.

Dishonorable Mention:

Time-Traveling with Artificial Intelligence

In a “press conference” (Trump’s phrase for “uninterrupted unhinged rant”) on Friday morning, Trump lied and lied and lied about the E. Jean Carroll case, claiming once again that he never met E. Jean Carroll, that her sexual assault never happened, that she came forward only to become famous — the usual litany of falsehoods that anyone following the case is already familiar with.

But the new twist is that he’s now claiming that the photograph in which he is seen with E. Jean Carroll was somehow generated by AI. Trump previously has relied on his cultists’ ignorance about artificial intelligence, claiming that photos and videos of Kamala Harris’ events have crowds that have been created by AI. That, of course, is absurd. Multiple news outlets — both right- and left-leaning …