Donald Trump has verifiably lied more than 15,000 times to date!
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Dear Friend,
We’ve all heard the story about six-year-old George Washington chopping
down his father’s cherry tree, and not being able to lie about it. [1]
And, of course, Abraham Lincoln was known as “Honest Abe.” [2]
This Presidents’ Day, as we remember previous Presidents George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln, we are furious that in 2020 we could not have a more
different leader in the White House.
Donald Trump has verifiably lied more than 15,000 times. [3] He and his
Administration regularly twist reality, sow confusion, and hide facts in
an unending campaign to gaslight America — manipulating the truth and
making people question what’s real — to serve Trump’s own ends.
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Gaslighting is a noted form of psychological manipulation in which a
person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual,
making them question their own memory, perception, or judgement.
Women and families are not going to stand silent. We are done with the
unending stream of falsehoods flying in the face of what we can see with
our own eyes and experience every day:
* Don’t lie to us about the economy, when many families are still living
paycheck-to-paycheck while Wall Street and billionaires are the only
ones truly seeing a windfall after a tax plan added trillions to our
deficit [4]
* Don’t lie to us to justify hateful, Islamophobic, and racist
immigration policies and the wasteful border wall, when FBI statistics
show that undocumented immigrants are more law-abiding than the
general population, and nothing could ever justify the cruelty of
separating families and putting children in cages. [5] [ [link removed] ]
* Don’t lie to us about our safety net programs, when the Trump
administration is supporting plans to gut Medicaid, Medicare, and the
Children’s Health Insurance Program. [ [link removed] ] [ [link removed] ]
* Don’t lie to us about our healthcare, when the Trump administration is
supporting a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which, if
successful, would result in dismantling protections for millions,
including those with pre-existing conditions. [8]
* Don’t lie to us about “paid leave,” when the policies being pushed by
the Trump administration are fatally flawed attempts to fool people by
offering families a loan now that they would have to repay later –
borrowing against their child’s future in order to care for her or him
in the present. [ [link removed] ]
We cannot stop challenging the grotesque misrepresentations of what is
really happening in this country to our families, communities, democracy,
and to our country.
[6]Make a donation and get a “Don’t Gaslight Me” button to help
MomsRising’s work to shine a light on truth.
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Your donation will be used to organize, to unite our voices, and to make
our resistance to the gaslighting as strong as possible. Please support
this critical work by pitching in now.
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People in this country are living in a very different America than the one
President Trump and his Administration brag about. For moms, women, people
of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities,
working families, seniors, and so many others, life has become harder
since Trump took office, and hatred, bullying, and discrimination more
pervasive, government services more scarce, health care more tenuous, and
our country much less united, safe and fair.
This Presidents’ Day, as we remember former Presidents George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln, and why we've believed they were great, we renew our
promise to never stop fighting to defend the truth and the American values
of honesty and decency. We’ll never stop fighting the gaslighting.
- Gloria, Kristin, Monifa, Nate, Ruth, Elyssa, Felicia, Xochitl, Donna,
Anita, Sili, and everyone at MomsRising.org
[1] “[9]George Washington and the Cherry Tree,” National Park Service.
[2] “[ [link removed] ]Lincoln’s Honesty,” Great American History.
[3] “[ [link removed] ]President Trump has made 15,413 false or misleading claims over
1,055 days,” The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2019.
[4] “[ [link removed] ]Budget Deficit Topped $1 Trillion in 2019,” The New York Times,
January 13, 2020.
[5] “[ [link removed] ]Trump is lying about immigrant crime – and the research proves
it,” Southern Poverty Law Center, May 17, 2019.
[6] “[ [link removed] ]Some kids will spend Christmas in border cages,” The Hill, Dec.
25, 2019.
[7] “[ [link removed] ]Trump proposes $4.8 trillion election-year budget with big
domestic cuts,” The Washington Post, Feb. 10, 2020.
[3] “[ [link removed] ]Trump's Second-Term Plan For Social Security: Starve The Beast,”
Aug. 23, 2019.
[8] “[ [link removed] ]Trump scrambles to defend pre-existing conditions record amid
ObamaCare lawsuit,”
The Hill, Jan. 20, 2020.
[9] “[ [link removed] ]Trump Called for Paid Family Leave. Here’s Why Few Democrats
Clapped,” The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2020.
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