Joe Biden may still be the president, but Trump has the news throttle, and even more so with yesterday’s so-called news conference. It was merely another opportunity for Trump to boast about his victory and disseminate a fresh batch of lies and misinformation.
A fact check of the news conference from Mar-a-Lago on Monday revealed a bundle of mistruths and exaggerations, including declaring he won the youth vote over Vice President Harris “by 34 points.” Several exit polls reported that Harris won 51 to 54% of voters under 30, thus beating Trump by 4 to 12 points.
But those inaccuracies were soon overshadowed by assailing Biden for selling border wall materials, calling it “a criminal act.” However, it only took him a few beats to return falsehoods, claiming that his administration built 571 miles of border wall, although the Government Accounting Office reported that the actual figure was about 450 miles.
Resuming his attack, Trump called Biden “stupid” for allowing Ukrainian forces to use American long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory.
Trump was asked how he will respond to the recent assassination of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who was in charge of Russia’s radiological, biological, and chemical protection forces. Ukraine’s security services allegedly were behind the assassination, which came a day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged the general in absentia with the use of banned chemical substances in the war on Ukraine. There has been no response yet to the assassination, although Trump will probably find some way to blame Biden.
As to t**** calling anyone stupid,…it takes one to know one.