“Donald Trump answered questions at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, a rare appearance before non-adoring voters in which he lied as often as he breathed. I’m not sure I see the value in hosting an event like this. We know what he’s going to say – he’s going to repeat the same deranged lies we’ve heard a million times.
In order to fact-check a Trump town hall, reporters have to talk like they’re describing the side effects at the end of a drug commercial. Fact-checkers were indeed required, although some of Trump’s answers defied basic sense; for example, when asked by one voter why, if he believed it was the president’s responsibility to protect America, Trump downplayed the coronavirus — a fact confirmed by several taped interviews with journalist Bob Woodward released last week — Trump responded: ‘I didn’t downplay it, I actually — in many ways, I actually up-played it in terms of action. So that was called action, not with the mouth but in actual fact.’
Well, it’s like they always say: actions are stronger than mouth. Trump’s garbled answer sounds like a poorly translated bus ad you’d see in a foreign country. It’s also a lie: in an interview with Woodward on 19 March, Trump said he ‘wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down.’
Trump’s town hall statements thus aren’t surprising, Meyers concluded, as these interviews with Trump always go the same way: he spews too many lies to count, and then fact checkers scramble to debunk everything. He’s a serial con artist and pathological liar – or, to put it in Trumpese, he up-plays the non-truths not with the mouth but in actual fact.” —Seth Meyers
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