In January Trump told a lie based on a movie. He created a story about drug traffickers and our southern border.

“And they’ll have women taped — their mouths with duct tape, with electrical tape. They tape their face, their hair, their hands behind their back, their legs. They put them in the backseat of cars and vans, and they go — they don’t come in through your port of entry because you’d see them. You couldn’t do that,” he said during a January 14 speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation. “They come in through our border, where we don’t have any barriers or walls.”

There was absolutely no truth in the fable. Over 95 percent of all illegal traffic into the United States arrives through our ports of entry; commercial airports and seaports.

February: North Carolina ordered a new election after a Republican was found guilty of voter fraud in the state’s ninth congressional district. When Trump was asked about his thoughts, he naturally made up another outrageous “alternate fact.”

“Well, I condemn any election fraud,” he said. “And when I look at what’s happened in California with the votes, when I look at what happened — as you know, there was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes…” Really?

March: Trump once against openly asked Russia for help in the 2020 election. His lie was obvious; he falsely claimed that three years ago he was “making a joke,” and is doing the same today.

“Because with the fake news — if you tell a joke, if you’re sarcastic, if you’re having fun with the audience, if you’re on live television with millions of people and 25,000 people in an arena, and if you say something like, ‘Russia, please, if you can, get us Hillary Clinton’s emails. Please, Russia, please. Please get us the emails. Please!’… So everybody is having a good time. I’m laughing, we’re all having fun. And then that fake CNN and others say, ‘He asked Russia to go get the emails. Horrible.’ …These people are sick,” he told the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2.

April: Although energy derived from wind has proven to be efficient and completely safe; creates good-paying jobs; and is an efficient source of electricity, Trump told a huge lie to his cult in support of the failing petroleum industry.

“Wind. If you — if you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75% in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,” he said.

May: A double ‘whammy.’ President Obama signed the “Veteran’s Choice Act.” For the ‘umpteenth time’ Trump attempted to take credit for an accomplishment by President Obama in 2018. Last May, this was his lie.

“I disagree with John McCain on the way he handled the vets, because I said you got to get Choice. He was never able to get Choice. I got Choice,” Trump told reporters.

What Trump signed in 2018 is the VA Mission Act which was the official accomplishment of John S. McCain III, Daniel K. Akaka, and Samuel R. Johnson VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act of 2018.

June: In 2018 Trump and Kim Jong-un made a verbal agreement. The bodies of fallen soldiers during the Korean conflict would be returned to the United States. As relations soured in 2019, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo failed to negotiate honestly with the autocratic nation, no more bodies were returned. That didn’t stop Trump from lying.

“We’ve had, as you know, the remains of the heroes, our great heroes from many years ago — that’s coming back, and coming back as they find them, as they find the sites and the graves, and they’re sending them back,” he told reporters on June 25, just five days before he met with dictator Kim Jong Un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

July: Trump lied about Representative Ilhan Omar; claiming that she said, ‘Al Qaeda made her proud.’ Nothing close to this was ever mentioned by the Muslim Congresswoman, but Trump felt it necessary to lie again in July.

Trump falsely claiming that Omar had used the phrase “evil Jews.” In September, he shared a Twitter video that falsely claimed Omar had been dancing in celebration on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once again Trump was inciting anger, hatred, and violence.

August: Beginning last July Trump continues to make a false claim that China is bearing the cost of his tariffs; tariffs which were opposed by every economist in the nation. In August, Trump doubled down on his lie.

“We’re not paying for the tariffs; China is paying for the tariffs, for the 100th time,” he told reporters in one typical remark on August 18. “And I understand tariffs very well. Other countries, it may be that if I do things with other countries — but in the case of China, China is eating the tariffs, at least so far.”

Jobs have been lost; a record number of farmers have faced foreclosure; consumers are paying more in retail outlets; these are the ways the American people are paying for Trump’s folly.

September: “The great sharpie fiasco.” After Trump made a very silly and false claim that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, he made a pitiful attempt to validate his lie by using a sharpie to alter the original forecast of Dorian’s path. Sad, so sad.

October: A failed attempt to misdirect the truth about the famous ‘whistleblower.’

“They heard a whistleblower who came out with a false story — you know, people say, ‘Oh, it was always fairly close.’ It wasn’t close at all. What the whistleblower said bore no relationship to what the call was,” he said in one representative comment on October 9. Another of his infamous “people say” claims. Who are these “people?”

November: Trump claimed that he had withdrawn all of America’s troops from Syria. Even “Fox and Friends,” Trump’s favorite of many television broadcasts noted that 600 soldiers remained. The truth is that after a phone call with one of the dictators he admires, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he removed our military who were working with the Kurds in Northern Turkey and sent them to northern Iraq; abandoning our allies.

December: At another of his hate rallies, Trump made another fool of himself. He claimed that methods to save the environment were making life difficult for Americans. His attempt to claim that dishwashers don’t work because they are not receiving enough water became the biggest joke of the week. Like Trump knows what a dishwasher looks like.

Let me know what you think These are just 12 of thousands of lies by your illegitimate president in one year.

“The Truth Lives Here”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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