This Week: Top 3 Trump Lies

Sept. 8, 2024 - Sept. 14, 2024

All three of this week’s lies surfaced during Tuesday’s presidential debate. But they’ve all been floating around long before the debate; Trump repeating them on the debate stage only magnified and perpetuated them.

In one form or another, all of this week’s lies (including the bonus Oldie but Goodie) are about isolationism. This is consistent with Trump’s only real vision for America — a country that it should become a gigantic whites-only gated community, fenced off to keep the rest of the world out.

Oldie but Goodie:

Criminal Migrants, Now With Even More Racism

Ah, echoes of past:

“[W]e have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums. And they're coming in and they're taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans and Hispanics and also unions.”

— Donald J. Trump, 09.10.2024

From the moment he declared his candidacy, Donald Trump shamelessly, willingly, and proudly made his racism a cornerstone of his can…