{"id":318,"date":"2016-05-25T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:21:13","slug":"trump-lies-and-lies-and-lies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Trump lies and lies and lies again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Republican candidate continues to dominate the presidential contest.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By\u00a0Editorial Board<\/a><\/span>\u00a0May 25, 2016<\/span><\/div>\n
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IT MIGHT be a fun parlor game, if the future of the country weren\u2019t at stake: How many lies by Donald Trump can be found in one news article? Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold set out to\u00a0get a few simple answers<\/a>\u00a0about Mr.\u00a0Trump\u2019s claims of donating to veterans. What he got were lies and evasions about practically every detail.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump made a show of raising what he said was $6\u00a0million for veterans groups, including a $1\u00a0million donation from himself, at an Iowa campaign event in January. Four months later, Post reporters tried to determine if Mr.\u00a0Trump, who often exploits his support for veterans to get the rhetorical upper hand on interviewers and opponents, really raised as much as he claimed, how much had been distributed, and to whom.<\/p>\n

Corey Lewandowski, Mr.\u00a0Trump\u2019s campaign manager,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0last week that Mr.\u00a0Trump had raised only $4.5\u00a0million, not the $6\u00a0million the candidate boasted about, because some donors \u2014 Mr.\u00a0Lewandowski did not say who \u2014 failed to follow through on their pledges. Then, in a Post interview Tuesday, Mr.\u00a0Trump\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the number is $5.5\u00a0million and that all the pledges had come in. Why the shifting stories? Almost certainly because Mr.\u00a0Trump had not given the $1\u00a0million of his own money he promised until, apparently, Post reporters started asking questions.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0last week that he had already handed out the $1\u00a0million he pledged. This was lie No.\u00a01. After Post reporters began publicly asking veterans groups if any of them got money from Mr.\u00a0Trump, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation received a phone call Monday from Mr.\u00a0Trump, promising his $1\u00a0million to the group. Mr.\u00a0Trump blamed the delay on needing to vet charities. That was likely lie No.\u00a02: Though other people\u2019s donations began flowing to various charities well before now, his came only after Post reporters pressed the matter. Topping it off was lie No.\u00a03:\u00a0He said he never claimed<\/a>\u00a0that he raised $6\u00a0million, despite video proof.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s reaction to being scrutinized? He took to social media\u00a0to denounce<\/a>\u201cbad publicity from the dishonest and disgusting media.\u201d<\/p>\n