Trump's late-campaign 'reality distortion' is getting more blatant, and increasingly bizarre
President Trump kicked off his eight-state, 11-rally sprint to Election Day in Florida on Wednesday night, trying to give a boost to Gov. Rick Scott (R), who's running for Senate, and GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis. But "as he barnstorms the country trying to help Republican allies," note Peter Baker and Linda Qiu at The New York Times, "Trump has offered voters this fall a litany of misleading statements and falsehoods that exaggerate even legitimate accomplishments and distort opponents' views beyond the typical bounds of political spin." To wit:
In the past couple of weeks alone, the president has spoken of riots that have not happened, claimed deals that have not been reached, cited jobs that have not been created, and spun dark conspiracies that have no apparent basis in reality. He has pulled figures seemingly out of thin air, rewritten history, and contradicted his own past comments. The catalog of inaccurate claims ranges from the weighty to the head-scratching. [The New York Times]
"He definitely has a reality distortion field around himself where he curves facts toward himself," former White House communications director and current Trump fan Anthony Scaramucci told NBC's Today show. "He's living in that bubble." You can read the facts about some of Trump's false claims at The New York Times.
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