Poison Control . Flinging Manure at the Wall

Last Thursday, Donald Trump invited reporters to Mar-a-Lago to listen to him talk. What he said wasn't all true.

• Donald Trump diminished the number of people at Harris/Walz events by an order of magnitude. There were not 2,000 people; there were 12,000 in Wisconsin and 15,000 in Michigan . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/07/harris-walz-wisconsin-rally

• Donald Trump said the ABC debate is September; it’s September10th . https://abc.com/news/6abdd5ab-5cdc-48c2-8184-8be2f1a532c1/category/1138628

• Donald Trump said he’s spoken to larger crowds that anyone ever. Barack Obama spoke to much larger crowds  . https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24505645.html .  https://www.mprnews.org/story/2008/10/18/st-louis-rally-largest-obama-crowd-in-us

• Donald Trump likened his speech on January 6th to Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream” speech, and his own crowd was bigger. There’s no favorable comparison between the events, the speeches, or the crowd sizes . https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-january-6-martin-luther-king-dream-speech-2024-8 . https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/us/january-6-martin-luther-king-jr-birthday-blake-cec/index.html

• Donald Trump claimed the events of January 6, 2021were part of the peaceful transfer of power on January 20, 2021. They most certainly were not . https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/capitol-insurrection-visual-timeline/

• Donald Trump said no one died as result of the violence on January 6, 2021. The public record says otherwise .  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html

• Donald Trump said abortion is less of an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign than at some unidentified time in the past. Women’s access to holistic reproductive health care is not less of an issue . The evidence suggests he is either actively misinforming the American people or he is ludicrously misinformed himself . https://news.gallup.com/poll/645836/record-share-electorate-pro-choice-voting.aspx . https://www.axios.com/2024/06/13/abortion-2024-election-poll . 

• Donald Trumps said everybody wanted to see Roe v. Wade overturned and access-to-abortion laws returned to the states . That’s not even a little bit true unless “everybody” means less than half . https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/07/06/majority-of-public-disapproves-of-supreme-courts-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/#:~:text=The%20survey%20finds%20that%20adults,slightly%20more%20(52%25)%20disapprove . https://www.prri.org/research/abortion-views-in-all-50-states-findings-from-prris-2023-american-values-atlas/ . https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx

• Donald Trump said there are ‘abortions” after birth taking place under the color of law. There are not, nor does anyone want that . https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/27/abortion-myths-republicans

• Donald Trump said Kamala Harris wants to take away everyone’s guns. She does not. (Oh, and her running mate is a gun owner and hunter) . https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gun-laws-or-second-amendment-is-false-choice-harris-says-chicago-2023-08-11/ . https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-walz-on-gun-control/#:~:text=For%2012%20years%2C%20from%202007,for%20gun%20owners%22%20in%202016.

• Donald Trump claimed Vice President Harris supports an unconditional arms embargo against Israel. She does not. Nor does she support enabling Israel to kill civilians indiscriminately . https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/politics/harris-israel-arms-embargo.html

• Donald Trump claimed his tax cuts were the biggest in history. They were not . https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/politics/is-trumps-bill-largest-tax-cut-in-history-no/index.html

• Donald Trump talked as if he would never cut Social Security … which is exactly the opposite of each of his proposed budgets while he was in office . https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2024/03/12/former-president-trumps-history-of-proposing-cuts-in-medicare-spending/

• Donald Trump said mail-in ballots are insecure. They’re not . https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/mail-voting-is-safe-secure/

• Donald Trump claimed the MAGA base is 75% of the country. It is not . https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-maga-base-kamala-harris-polls-1936903

• Donald Trump claimed polls predict he will win in a landslide. They do not . https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/

If I were in poison control, I would, I think, be very interested in controlling poison.