Donald Trump is on track to have told a whopping 2,000 falsehoods during his first year in office.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

For some reason, our year-long project analyzing, categorizing and tracking every false or misleading claim by President Trump had seemed like quite a burden in the past month. Well, the numbers are in and now we know why: In the past 35 days, Trump has averaged an astonishing nine claims a day. 

The total now stands at 1,628 claims in 298 days, or an average of 5.5 claims a day. That puts the president on track to reach 1,999 claims by the end of his first year in office, though he obviously would easily exceed 2,000 if he maintained the pace of the past month.

This is usually the part of the post where I say "How can people still support a guy who simply cannot tell the truth?"

But then I have to remind myself that the people who still support Donald Trump have no relationship with the truth, do not trust facts, and believe the mainstream media is a liberal creation designed to destroy their conservative leaders.

At that point I just bang my head on the desk until the pretty stars arrive to distract me from the craziness that seems to have infected our country.

Widow of slain soldier backs up Congresswoman's version of "condolence" call while Donald Trump essentially calls them both liars.

"[I was] very upset and hurt. It made me cry even worse." - Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt. La David Johnson to @GStephanopoulos pic.twitter.com/JguNqTaYa3

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 23, 2017

This is from Myesha Johnson's interview on Good Morning America this morning.

She also confirmed that the Congresswoman's version of the phone call was "100% correct."

"Whatever [@RepWilson] said was not fabricated. What she said was 100% correct." - widow of Sgt. La David Johnson on Pres. Trump's call pic.twitter.com/fOAmT7c0Bk

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 23, 2017

However Donald Trump could simply not let that stand. 

I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2017

And no, that is NOT how Rep. Wilson, and now the widow, characterized that phone call.

Which essentially means that Donald Trump is calling them liars.

Speaking of liars apparently now Gold Star families are finally receiving rush delivered condolence letters from the White House after Trump publicly claimed that he had reached out to "all of the families."

Gee, what a smooth cover up.

Former Trump tax attorney refutes his "brilliant" use of the tax laws, and bankruptcy lawyers say they used to visit Trump in pairs due to "lying."

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Donald Trump’s longtime tax accountant on Tuesday rejected the idea that the Republican nominee deserves any of the credit for employing complex strategies to lower his tax bill and those of his companies. 

“I did all the tax preparation,” Jack Mitnick told “Inside Edition” on Tuesday. “He never saw the product until it was presented to him for signature.” 

The interview followed a damning report Saturday by The New York Times, which obtained part of Trump’s 1995 tax returns showing that the businessman declared a loss that year of more than $900 million, a loss that tax experts said Trump could have used to avoid paying income taxes for nearly 20 years. 

Rather than deny the report, Trump and his advisers claimed that not paying income taxes was proof of Trump’s “genius.” 

Yeah it takes a real genius to sign on the dotted and then take credit for all of the work.

However we should not be at all surprised.  After all according to Trump's former bankruptcy attorneys they had a policy to only meet with him in pairs due to his constant lying.

In depo for Trump Plaza bankruptcy case, Trump's own lawyer testifies they often met with him in pairs because Trump lies so much. pic.twitter.com/TdEkdf4ZiB

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 6, 2016

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Donald Trump’s own bankruptcy lawyers testified that they had a policy of not meeting with the real estate mogul alone because he had a “problem” of constantly lying.

In one document, bankruptcy attorney George Miller reveals that when meeting with Trump, “it’s always been our practice to make sure that two people are present, and we don’t have a problem with people lying.” 

Miller calls Trump “an expert at interpreting things. Let’s put it that way.” 

“We tried to [meet in pairs] with Donald always if we could because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory,” he says in the deposition.

And the hits just keep on coming.

Seriously how much more of this can his candidacy take before it simply collapses under the weight?

Donald Trump claims that top Chicago cops told him that they could put an end to the violence in one week. Chicago police spokesman responds with "WTF?"

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune:

In an interview Monday night on the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor," Trump reiterated his past comments about Chicago violence being "out of control" and added that the Chicago police force does not have "the right people in charge." 

Fox host Bill O'Reilly asked Trump how to solve the city's crime problem, with homicides up nearly 50 percent. 

"How? By being very much tougher than they are right now. They're right now not tough. I could tell you this very long and quite boring story. But when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police. I said, 'How do you stop this? How do you stop this? If you were put in charge — to a specific person — do you think you could stop it?' He said, 'Mr. Trump, I'd be able to stop it in one week.' And I believed him 100 percent," Trump said. 

When O'Reilly asked whether the unnamed officer told him how, Trump said: "No, he wants to use tough police tactics, which is OK when you have people being killed." 

But Chicago police said Tuesday that Trump has not met with top brass. 

"No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign," Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. 

Guglielmi clarified later that since at least March, when a Trump rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago was planned and ultimately canceled, none of the department's deputy superintendents, commanders of the city's 22 districts, chiefs of patrol or chiefs of detectives has met with Trump.

I imagine that after reading that a number of you thought, 'Big deal Donald Trump lies all of the time. We have come to expect it."

But that's the thing.

He DOES lie all of the time, and we HAVE come to expect it.

People are literally chalking it off to Donald being Donald.

And that is bullshit!

This man just lied about having a conversation with a top police official, that he did not have, in order to push his claim that the cops will magically be more effective once he is elected. And that as a result crime will go down.

And in response this news received very little media coverage, because, you know, it happens all of the time.

By contrast if Hillary had said this it would be on the front page of every major paper in the country and cable news would be covering it 24/7.

You know that's true.

Currently Trump and the conservative media are pushing the narrative that Hillary Clinton lies and that she cannot be trusted.

That is not a campaign strategy, that is projection. And EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY, needs to be calling them out over it.

Donald Trump mocks Ben Carson's stabbing story. As well he should.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Ultimately asking how “stupid” Iowans and Americans are to “believe this crap,” Trump was more showman than seasoned politician as he stepped out from behind the podium and acted out the stabbing while drawing delighted laughter from the crowd. 

“He lunged that knife into the belly of his friend but, lo and behold, it hit the belt. And the knife broke” a mocking Trump explained. “Give me a break. Give me a break.” 

“So I have a belt and somebody hits me with a knife, it’s going in because the belt moves this way. It moves this way, it moves that way,” Trump continued as he mugged for the crowd. “He hit the belt buckle. Anybody have a knife? Want to try it on me? Believe me, it ain’t gonna work. You’re not going to be successful, but he took the knife and went like this and he plunged it into the belt and, amazingly, the belt stayed totally flat and the knife broke.” 

“How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?” he deadpanned.

You know of all of the bullshit that Carson has spouted I have to admit that this has troubled me more than most.

And part of the reason is because it is so completely implausible. 

Carson identified the knife used in the attack as a "camping" knife. That would seem to indicate a fairly sturdy blade.

Knives like that do NOT snap unless they are placed under great pressure.

IF Carson had actually struck a solid unyielding surface, the most likely outcome would be that the tip broke off the knife but that most of the blade remained intact.

Hitting the belt buckle, just as Trump points out, might have caused the knife to alter course a few inches but it still would have plunged into the other boy's stomach.

This story, like seemingly ALL of Carson's stories, is full of shit.

And yes, the people of Iowa, and the conservative voters behind those poll numbers, are stupid for believing it.