Trump upgrades his con to Category 5

 

 

"In reality-based America, illegal border crossings
have plunged. Murders, rapes and other violent
crimes have fallen. Fentanyl overdose deaths are
declining sharply. Inflation has been tamed (September’s
consumer price index was up just 2.4 percent
from a year earlier), mortgage rates are falling,
employment is booming and the stock market has
been setting records. Fewer U.S. troops have died in
hostile action under the Biden administration than
under the Trump administration, and President Joe
Biden has been adding to the national debt at half the
pace Trump did. While Biden has rallied the world to
defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, Trump has
had as many as seven calls with Russian President
Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House, The
Post’s Bob Woodward reports in his new book.

But, in the alternate universe of Trump’s imagination,
13,099 “convicted illegal alien murderers are
now on the loose.” Trump proclaims that “some of
them had murdered 10 people” — and all were let in
during the Biden-Harris administration. (In fact,
most of these killers are now behind bars, and the
number reflects a time period of 40 years.) In Trump’s
telling, “You can’t walk across the street” in America
without getting shot, mugged or raped. In Trump’s
evidence-free fantasy, migrants are coming from
“insane asylums” and prisons. Kamala Harris has a
“phone app” that assists the heads of drug cartels. She
has opened the border and is trying to legalize
fentanyl. The Biden-Harris administration gave “almost
all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants.”
Those who lost everything in Hurricane Helene can
get no more than $750 from the government. They’re
eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats!

“He just makes it up,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
said in an appearance at the University of Utah on
Tuesday. “And he is able to spew enough disinformation
that the Chinese must be smiling.”

Let’s review just a few recent days of Trump’s
output of Category 5 confusion."

READ REPORT BY DANA MILBANK