{"id":39460,"date":"2018-10-16T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39460"},"modified":"2018-10-19T01:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:55:20","slug":"donald-trump-denies-financial-ties-to-saudi-arabia-fox-news-fact-check-proves-hes-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39460","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Denies Financial Ties to Saudi Arabia &#8211; Fox News Fact Check Proves He&#8217;s Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest thing to prove in American politics today is that Donald Trump told a lie. It&#8217;s so easy that the Washington Post has done it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/13\/president-trump-has-made-more-than-false-or-misleading-claims\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 5,000 times<\/a><\/strong>. Catching Trump saying something that is demonstrably untrue happens so often that it has ceased to be newsworthy. And that may actually be the strategy on Trump&#8217;s part. If he lies about everything than reporting any of his lies is somewhat redundant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-scared.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39223\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2379455012069280\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is imperative that the President not be permitted to get away with racking up frequent fabricator miles at the expense of the nation. After all, when he does go down, among the charges against him are likely to be several involving perjury. The fact that he is establishing a pattern of behavior that will attest to his recklessness with the truth is only going to end up biting him in his ample posterior.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Trump dumped a truckload of manure on Twitter that adds to his chronicle of bullcrap. He must not have any presidenting to do because he had the time to post sixteen tweets, most of which contained varying degrees of untruths. From his assertion that Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s DNA test was <em>&#8220;bogus,&#8221;<\/em> to his video assault on Medicare-for-All that blatantly misrepresented the initiative and his own sabotage of healthcare for millions of citizens. But perhaps the most brazen distortion of reality was his claim that he has <em>&#8220;no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1052186219696803841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What makes this preposterous posting so uniquely debunkable is that all you need are Trump&#8217;s own words. He has spent years boasting about the millions of dollars he makes off of the Saudis. And the ease with which this flagrant lie could be refuted was even to much for Fox News to resist. And they did a pretty good job of beating Trump&#8217;s lying horseface into pulp:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump &amp; Saudi Business:<br \/>\u20221991: Sold yacht to Saudi Prince<br \/>\u20222001: Sold 45th floor of Trump World Tower to Saudis<br \/>\u2022Jun 2015: I love the Saudis&#8230;many in Trump Tower<br \/>\u2022Aug 2015: &quot;They buy apartments from me&#8230;Spend $40M-$50M&quot;<br \/>\u20222017: Saudi lobbyists spent $270K at Trump DC hotel<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News Research (@FoxNewsResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsResearch\/status\/1052200150066708480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The @FoxNewsResearch Twitter account is surprisingly accurate from time to time, and it isn&#8217;t afraid to criticize Trump, unlike the sycophantic Trump-fluffers on the air at Fox News. The items listed in the tweet above prove that Trump lied about his involvement with Saudi money. They left a couple out though. For instance, in 2016: Trump registered eight new companies in Saudi Arabia, during his campaign. And his recent bleating about the $110 billion in arms that he&#8217;s selling to Saudi Arabia actually influenced his opinion regarding the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>It is also notable that Trump&#8217;s daughter Ivanka, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, have Saudi financial ties as well. And Trump has gone out of his way to exempt the Saudis from any negative consequences for their actions. Like when he left them off of his Muslim Ban despite the fact that fifteen of the nineteen 9\/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The unsavory connections between Trump and Saudi royalty just reeks of corruption. It&#8217;s not unlike his relationships with Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin. He just adores foreign dictators who are avowed enemies of America. And that should make Americans think long and hard about where he stands with regard to his loyalties here at home. Especially when his treasonous acts are so open that even Fox News reports on them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest thing to prove in American politics today is that Donald Trump told a lie. It&#8217;s so easy that the Washington Post has done it more than 5,000 times. Catching Trump saying something that is demonstrably untrue happens so often that it has ceased to be newsworthy. And that may actually be the strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200],"tags":[554,33],"class_list":["post-39460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-scared.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ags","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40157,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40157","url_meta":{"origin":39460,"position":0},"title":"Stop the Presses: Donald Trump Tells a Flaming Whopper, Takes Journalist &#8216;Totally Out of Context&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/5\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"As Donald Trump warned us all in an ominous Christmas Eve tweet, \"Throughout the ages some things NEVER get better and NEVER change.\" The truth of that is abundantly evident in the tweets that Trump continues to post in this new year. 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