All lies, all the time

Politico: Trump blames his COVID infection on Gold Star families”. Except he didn’t. The reports must have read the transcript of the interview: she claims she did, anyway, and deliberately chose to deliberately fabricate a “quote”.

What he was doing was doing his job, just like grocery workers A (or, as Biden would have it, “black women stocking shelves) while “journalists” were cowering and complaining.

Here’s what happened. Trump had told Maria Bartiromo that he “figured there would be a chance”  he’d catch the virus because he’s often in close contact with people.

“Sometimes, I’d be in groups of, for instance, Gold Star families. I met with Gold Star families. I didn’t want to cancel that,” Trump explained. “But they all came in, and they all talk about their son and daughter and father. And, you know, they all came up to me, and they tell me a story.”

“I can’t say, ‘Back up, stand 10 feet,’ you know? I just can’t do it,” Trump added. “They want to hug me, and they want to kiss me. And they do. And, frankly, I’m not telling them to back up. I’m not doing it.”

Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, is disgusted by this latest smear against Trump. “The story saying President Trump blames Gold Star families is false and a grotesque attack,” she told PJ Media. “Listen to the interview for yourself. He said he knew there was a chance he could at some point catch the virus because he is not at all times six feet away from people.”

In her debate performance the other night, Kamal Harris invented a quote by Lincoln on filling a vacant Supreme Court seat.

Harris said:

In 1864 — one of the, I think political heroes certainly of the President, I assume of you also, Mr. Vice President, is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was up for re-election, and it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge, not only of the White House, but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, “It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States. And then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.” And so Joe and I are very clear: the American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime.

However, Harris misrepresented what “Honest Abe” did, and why. As Dan McLaughlin of National Review noted, President Abraham Lincoln never said anything like what Harris said he did. He delayed sending a nominee to the Senate because it was out of session. McLaughlin wrote:

Lincoln, of course, said no such thing. He sent no nominee to the Senate in October 1864 because the Senate was out of session until December. He sent a nominee the day after the session began, and Salmon P. Chase was confirmed the same day. And Lincoln wanted to dangle the nomination before Chase and several other potential candidates because he wanted them to campaign for him. Lincoln’s priority was winning the election, which was necessary to win the war — and he filled the vacancy at the first possible instant.

Kamala Harris is simply inventing history.

Both Harris and her partner lied about not banning fracking when in fact they have campaigned on exactly that promise to ban. Video proof at the link.

With the exception of the Washington Post, which labeled Harris’ phony Lincoln quote “mostly false”, the mainstream media has gone along with these lies. Nor have any stopped repeating the thoroughly debunked claim, repeated by Biden just yesterday, that Trump praised white supremacists in Charlottesville.

I’ll repeat: al all lies, all the time.