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Compare what Trump said versus what Trump did. Is it the same? Is Carrier _paying a tax_ or _accepting tax money_ ? Now ask yourself if the Carrier deal is a *good* deal based on what Trump ran on. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump

Journalists need to understand what Trump is doing and refuse to play by his rules. He is going to use the respect and deference typically accorded to the presidency as an instrument for spreading more lies. Reporters must refuse to treat him like a normal president and refuse to bestow any unearned legitimacy on his administration.

Trump’s proxies need to be asked over and over again to provide evidence. When they are unable, they need to be asked why they are unable to defend the president’s assertion and if they believe what the president said. You can not play he said she said here.

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Trumpgrets: schadenfreude therapy (via Trumpgrets.) Worth a read.

Lewandowski: NY Times Editor Should Be Jailed For Publishing Trump Taxes

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowksi on Thursday called for the New York Times’ executive editor to be jailed for releasing some pages of the President-elect’s tax returns. (via Lewandowski: NY Times Editor Should Be Jailed For Publishing Trump Taxes) Calling for the jailing of journalists is not normal.

Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump – The New York Times

by looking at Census data from 2013 to 2015, which show the impact of the full implementation of Obamacare. Over that period, the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 13 million; whites without a college degree, who voted Trump by around two to one, accounted for about eight million of that decline. So we’re probably… Continue reading Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump – The New York Times

Kellyanne Conway Gets Flustered Refusing To Answer Whether Trump’s Voter Fraud Tweet Was True

George replied, “There is no evidence that there were millions of illegal votes, zero.”

Conway continued to whine about the media and legal recounts that are being conducted and cried, “Why can’t you allow this President-elect to form his government the way that President Obama and Secretary Clinton had suggested they would like him to do?”

wow.

NYTimes: Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States

Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States

“In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself,” she said, “verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would put all concerns around voter disenfranchisement to rest. Trump’s desperate attempts to silence voter demands for recounts raise a simple question: why is Donald Trump afraid of these recounts?”

Trump’s $7MM deal with Indiana and Carrier has a -102.9% ROI

Someone on reddit did the math on the Carrier deal. It’s a bad deal.

More importantly, it’s the opposite of what Trump ran on. Tough guy Trump talked about taxing companies that moved jobs to Mexico. Here he is giving them money while they move a net 200 jobs to Mexico.

An ethical double standard for Trump — and the GOP?

“If Hillary Clinton wins this election and they don’t shut down the Clinton Foundation and come clean with all of its past activities, then there’s no telling the kind of corruption that you might see out of the Clinton White House,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

Presumably Cotton will take the lead in advising Donald Trump to “shut down” his business activities and “come clean” on what came before. Surely Cotton wants to be consistent.

TheMoneyIllusion » Trump favors teasier money

So what are Trump’s views? Very simple. For elderly savers, Trump favors higher interest rates. For big developers, he favors low rates. For consumers, he wants a strong dollar. For exporters, he wants a weaker dollar. Each group will get what they want, but not all in the same universe. You see, Trump’s monetary views are best described as a wave function, which will collapse to a single outcome on January 20th. Trump is the first post-modern candidate, the first to understand that truth is what the voters let you get aways with, and that the multiverse offers the possibility of achieving seemingly irreconcilable aims.