Politics Don Lemon Fact-Checks Donald Trump's 'Flat-Out Lie' About Barack Obama's Campaign
Dec 12, 2018 20:23:19 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-lemon-fact-checks-donald-095142998.html
Don Lemon is done with President Donald Trump’s claims that campaign finance violations conducted by his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (allegedly at Trump’s direction) are “just like what Obama did during his campaign.”
The “CNN Tonight” host said Monday that “I just want to scream at the television when I see” Trump and “his apologists” putting forward the theory.
“That is a flat-out lie. Legal experts will agree,” he said.
The Obama 2008 campaign “did miss filing deadlines” and “did not properly refund excess contributions, which they admitted, and they paid the fines,” Lemon noted. “Some of my guests will tell you, campaigns are fined for doing that all the time, sometimes there are clerical errors, sometimes there are other reasons.”
He then explained how that “is not the same, at all, as creating a shell company or using a media company to pay hush money for affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model during an election so that the voting public wouldn’t find out.”
“It is not the same at all. C’mon. Don’t be stupid. Don’t think people are stupid by pretending that is equal and the same thing. It is not,” Lemon added.
Check out the full clip here:
Don Lemon is done with President Donald Trump’s claims that campaign finance violations conducted by his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (allegedly at Trump’s direction) are “just like what Obama did during his campaign.”
The “CNN Tonight” host said Monday that “I just want to scream at the television when I see” Trump and “his apologists” putting forward the theory.
“That is a flat-out lie. Legal experts will agree,” he said.
The Obama 2008 campaign “did miss filing deadlines” and “did not properly refund excess contributions, which they admitted, and they paid the fines,” Lemon noted. “Some of my guests will tell you, campaigns are fined for doing that all the time, sometimes there are clerical errors, sometimes there are other reasons.”
He then explained how that “is not the same, at all, as creating a shell company or using a media company to pay hush money for affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model during an election so that the voting public wouldn’t find out.”
“It is not the same at all. C’mon. Don’t be stupid. Don’t think people are stupid by pretending that is equal and the same thing. It is not,” Lemon added.
Check out the full clip here:
Dec 12, 2018 23:31:20 #
Bad Bob wrote:
Of course it's not the same thing at all!
1) Trump had a long standing policy of paying hush money for brand protection. (Trump is legally a brand name) The same thing was done numerous times in the same way before he ever became a candidate. These payments had nothing to do with a campaign previously, and with no change in the action, it is highly unlikely to have been done on these two occasions for the campaign.
2) Obama did not failed to disclose only two contributions. He failed to disclose thousands and the FEC investigation concluded he knowingly did not disclose them. He also accepted larger contributions than allowed (which he paid the excess back when caught.) And missed deadlines.
Dec 12, 2018 23:42:19 #
How is it fact checking to repeat the facts then claim anyone who doesn't reach the same conclusion as you is stupid?...
Dec 13, 2018 00:44:27 #
Drink any Kool-Aid lately? The truth is "Legal Experts" say Obama is the worst president our country has ever had.
Dec 13, 2018 11:51:21 #
Lemon is a leftist fool. He has his facts all wrong. One day the American public will learn just what the black president really did to this country. It will make you cry and ask how in the hell did he fool 300 million people twice !!!!
Dec 13, 2018 18:25:35 #
johnsorrell7 wrote:
Lemon is a leftist fool. He has his facts all wrong. One day the American public will learn just what the black president really did to this country. It will make you cry and ask how in the hell did he fool 300 million people twice !!!!
He didn’t have to fool 300 million people. Only the majority of fools.
Dec 13, 2018 19:12:40 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
Bcon wrote:
He didn’t have to fool 300 million people. Only the majority of fools.
USS Trump
Dec 13, 2018 19:55:54 #
Bad Bob wrote:
USS Trump
Great answer Bob, you didn’t even have to think for that one. Take it easy on yourself, you were only one of many fools that voted for the avowed Muslim fake president.
Dec 14, 2018 07:28:02 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
Bcon wrote:
Great answer Bob, you didn’t even have to think for that one. Take it easy on yourself, you were only one of many fools that voted for the avowed Muslim fake president.
Only 50 times.
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