Lies. Lies. Lies. Lies. How Much More Can America Take, Mr. President?
The Mother Jones Podcast
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🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump loves to lie. We know that. But as the editor and chief writer of the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” it’s Glenn Kessler’s job to keep count. Donald Trump has earned over 18,000 Pinocchios from the “Fact Checker” team for his many, many falsehoods, exaggerations, and outright lies. On this week’s episode of the Mother Jones Podcast, Washington DC Bureau Chief David Corn interviews Kessler about his new book, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth, which he co-wrote with his “Fact Checker” colleagues Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly. Kessler gets into all of it—lies about the coronavirus, about rallies, about climate change—and assesses what might happen if Trump's lies are allowed to thrive for another four years.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in Brooklyn. |
| 0:05.0 | On today's show, |
| 0:12.0 | on today's show, Trump's failed reboot rally, fueled by lies. So many lies, lies about the coronavirus. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives. |
| 0:26.3 | Lies about walking down a ramp. It was like an ice skating room. It's true. Because when I was 10 feet short I said general I'm sorry I'm and I ran down the rest right I look very |
| 0:39.1 | handsome that that was the only good thing it's's going to be like this until November. |
| 0:44.0 | And if he wins, for the four years after that. |
| 0:48.0 | What impact has this alternate reality already had on our psychology? how we understand, you know, American democracy. |
| 0:57.0 | The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler is here to talk about Trump's 16,000 lies since taking office and the many more to come. |
| 1:05.9 | Stick around. For decades, Glenn Kessler has been a prominent and award-winning newspaper reporter. |
| 1:22.0 | Nine years ago, he became the editor-in-chief of the fact-checker, |
| 1:27.0 | the post column that checks statements from politicians, officials, and other people in the news. |
| 1:32.0 | You know it, you've seen it. |
| 1:33.8 | He's the one with his team who hands out Pinocchio's. |
| 1:38.0 | Now, with his colleagues Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, |
| 1:42.4 | Kessler has a new book out and it's called |
| 1:44.8 | Donald Trump and his assault on truth. |
| 1:51.0 | The book notes that Trump has added 16,000 falsehoods since becoming president. |
| 1:57.0 | The actual count is many thousands higher and who knows what it will be by the time you finish this podcast. |
| 2:05.0 | Glenn Kessler sat down over Zoom with our Washington DC Bureau Chief David Corn |
| 2:11.0 | to try to get the truth about Donald Trump's lies. |
| 2:15.0 | Glenn, welcome to the Mother Jones podcast. |
| 2:18.0 | I'd be with you. |
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