Ignorance is Strength Week 5 and Week 6

Another week and he has not stopped the spreading of alternative facts.  He is repeating many of the misconceptions.  It is like he is doing the same misstatements over and over until they become real.  This is the theory that if you say something often enough it becomes true or at least it distracts voters from real issues (Whitewater, Vince Foster, Benghazi, Private Servers, Obamacare premiums rose by over 100%). Here is week 5 and week 6 of the false statements by President Trump.

• At the CPAC conference, he officially declared war on "fake news" and constructed a straw man to regularly attack.
• At CPAC, he complained about media using anonymous sources while at the same time allowing his staff to be sources on stories. 
• At CPAC, he said that Obamacare does not cover that many people.  Of course he also admitted that healthcare was complicated. 
• He again talked about his amazing Electoral College victory.
• Claimed that the United States spent $6 trillion on the War in the Middle East.
• Claimed that the military has been depleted or is weak. Also claimed that the military had lost recent wars.
• Claimed the U.S. border was wide open.
• Claimed to be getting the "bad ones" deported, but reports are a far broader sweep.
•  Claimed that the majority of those convicted of terrorism are from outside the United States.
• Americans have to pay high tariffs on exports but other countries pay next to nothing on imports. 
• Claims to be calling on the largest increase in defense spending in history. World wars?
• Obamacare has increased by double or triple digits.
• Sent out a picture of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer eating a Krispy Kreme donuts to claim an improper connection.  Distraction?
• Also in the category of explosive distraction, is the claim that Obama had authorized a wiretap of Trump Tower.  
• Overstated the trade deficit by $300 billion or a 40% overstatement in the State of the Nation speech. 
• Claimed that keeping out immigrants will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone. There is no research to back up this statement.  I just know that I do not know anyone who will pick vegetables all day.
• Obamacare is collapsing.
• Is the Corporate tax rate the highest in the world if no corporation actually pays that tax?
• We have the worst recovery in 65 years" is a strange statement since the recovery was eight years ago."
• Claimed 94 million out of the workforce. This includes seniors and young people and disabled people.  

by Max Johnson