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Protests surround White House as president delivers lie-filled RNC nomination speech<\/i><\/b><\/p>\nby Darmi Msarko<\/p>\n
“This is the most important election in history. And you are the most dangerous president in the history of our country. That’s why you’re going to lose,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders during Trump’s remarks<\/i><\/b>Protests surround White House as president delivers lie-filled RNC nomination speech<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
“For almost 10 hours this week, President Trump and his allies used the unfiltered platform of a national political convention to paint a portrait of two Americas that do not exist,” White House reporter Toluse Olorunnipa writes in The Washington Post<\/a>. “In one \u2014 a misrepresentation of life under Trump \u2014 the coronavirus has been conquered by presidential leadership, the economy is at its pre-pandemic levels, troops are returning home, and the president is an empathetic figure who supports immigration and would never stoke the nation’s racial grievances.” The other grossly “mischaracterizes” Democratic rival Joe Biden’s proposals.<\/p>\n “While all political confabs involve some level of spin and revisionism,” Olorunnipa adds<\/a>, “the Republican National Convention this year has stood out for its brazen defiance of facts, ethical guidelines, and tradition, according to experts on propaganda and misinformation.”<\/p>\n Trump himself “often exaggerated his own accomplishments and skated over his failures while portraying Democrats and Mr. Biden inaccurately,” The New York Times said<\/a> in its fact-check. “Trump claimed accomplishments he didn’t earn on the pandemic, energy, and veterans,” The Associated Press specified<\/a>, and “baselessly accused” Black Lives Matter “of coordinating violent protests across the country.”<\/p>\n CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale was more direct Thursday night, telling Anderson Cooper: “This president is a serial liar, and he serially lied tonight. I counted, preliminarily, more than 20 false or misleading claims.” And then he ran through them, marathon-style.<\/p>\n Quite the fact check from @ddale8<\/a> of Trump\u2019s speech. pic.twitter.com\/8fITOfExta<\/a><\/p>\n