Ignorance is Strength Week 3

Remember this is the summary of the false statements made by the Commander and Chief so this is not when staff say false statements.  This is not a place to talk about Michael Flynn lying about talking to Russia about sanction before the election or Sean Spicer making up a terrorist attack in Atlanta or the lack of acknowledgement of the hate crime in Canada at the Quebec mosque.  These are the third week of false statements.

• The President of False Statements said that the murder rate was at a 47 year high.  The opposite is true with murder rate at a 57 year low. 
• Commander of the Alternative Fact stated that the news media was not covering terrorist attacks when in fact terrorism is the bread and butter of most cable networks.  Then they released a list of 78 attacks that were either overly covered or were routine crimes without a fatality.  
• The King of the Exaggeration claimed on February 6 that only 109 were impacted by the travel ban.  This might have been true in the first hours and only at US airports it was clear by February 6 that thousands (PolitiFact said as few as 60,000 people) were impacted. 
• Claimed that Senator Blumenthal had misinterpreted his Supreme Court nominee had said about the Chief Tweeter with regards to the courts.  The potential justice had said Trump's tweet were "disheartening and demoralizing."  They tried to make it general about any attack even though it came up regarding tweets and despite confirmation from the Judge's spokesperson and his own staff minder who sat in on the meeting. 
• This was a double exaggeration because he also said that CNN had not asked Blumenthal about his Vietnam service which they did.  Why call attention to Vietnam when the person bringing  it up asked for six deferrments while the subject had served in the Marine Reserve?
• Claimed that Senator McCain, a war hero POW, was helping the enemy because he questioned if a raid in Yemen was a failure. 
• The Business Man in Chief attacked retailer Nordstrom dropped the Ivanka Trump line of clothing for mistreating her and that she was a good person.  Nordstrom claimed they dropped her for pure economic reasons: lack of sales. 
• Again claimed voter fraud in New Hampshire caused Senator Ayotte to lose thousands of  votes in the November election while speaking to a group of Senators. He said thousands of illegal voters came over from neighboring states to vote.  Just an aside he also slurred Elizabeth Warren again. 
•  Claimed that the crime problem in Chicago was the result of "illegal immigrants" who were in gangs.
• Claimed longest in history to get his full cabinet to be approved by the Senate.  Obama waited 99 days for his full cabinet to be approved. 
• Claimed the Obama Administration created ISIS after withdrawing from Iraq.  ISIS formed in 1999 and it was using the name in 2006 during the Bush administration. 

by Max Johnson