{"id":42721,"date":"2019-09-12T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42721"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T20:20:05","slug":"pathological-liar-trump-sinks-to-making-up-quotes-as-his-impeachment-fears-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42721","title":{"rendered":"Pathological Liar Trump Sinks to Making Up &#8216;Quotes&#8217; as His Impeachment Fears Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Congress returned from its summer recess and almost immediately got to work by voting to proceed with an inquiry into Donald Trump and the case for his impeachment. The House Judiciary Committee <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/impeachment-inquiry-ramps-judiciary-panel-adopts-procedural-guidelines-n1052431\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">passed a resolution<\/a><\/strong> that set the procedures and rules for future impeachment investigation hearings. Committee chair Jerry Nadler made clear that Trump&#8217;s conduct <em>&#8220;poses a threat to our democracy,&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;We have an obligation to respond to this threat.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-impeach.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Impeach\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36089\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2958076850873757\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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>The dagger dangling precariously over Trump&#8217;s intellectually numb skull is having an impact on his already panicked temperament. Under ordinary conditions (if there were any) Trump would be behaving erratically. But with the looming prospect of impeachment he has leapt off the cliff&#8217;s edge and is hurtling into the abyss of his psychoses. That would explain his tweet Thursday morning that purported to be a quote by Rep. Al Green:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe can\u2019t beat him, so lets impeach him!\u201d Democrat Rep. Al Green<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1172149684380590080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By now most American know that Trump is a pathological liar who has been documented to have told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/08\/12\/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more than 12,000 lies<\/a><\/strong> since his inauguration. Most recently he outdid himself by lying about the path of Hurricane Dorian. He even altered official weather maps, bullied NOAA officials to concur with his flagrant falsehoods, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42674\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">chastised the Fox News White House correspondent<\/a><\/strong> for not backing him up.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tweet above goes much further down the rabid hole of paranoia and deceit. The words Trump attributed to Rep. Green as a quote were never said by Green. At best, Trump is wildly distorting comments made by Green four months ago when he was interviewed on MSNBC <em>(video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Host Phillip Mena:<\/strong> Are you concerned that impeachment talk may actually help the President&#8217;s reelection?<br \/>\n<strong>Green:<\/strong> I\u2019m concerned if we don\u2019t impeach this president, he will get re-elected. If we don&#8217;t impeach him he will say that he&#8217;s been vindicated. He will say that the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the House and they didn&#8217;t take up impeachment. [&#8230;] We must impeach this president. If we don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s not the soul of the nation that will be at risk only, it&#8217;s the soul of the Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Green wasn&#8217;t saying that Trump couldn&#8217;t be beat, nor that impeachment was a response to the fallacy of him being unbeatable. He was merely answering the question by noting what Trump would say if Democrats didn&#8217;t proceed with impeachment. And he was acknowledging the possibility of Trump&#8217;s reelection, which any reasonable political analyst would concede exists. But no one could plausibly interpret those remarks the way Trump did in his wholly dishonest tweeting of a fake quote. And to drive that point home, Green replied to Trump&#8217;s tweet with one of his own:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Because no one is above the law, we must impeach, and if the Senate does not convict, we will defeat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> You will NOT have a second term! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ImpeachNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ImpeachNow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PBDB2Dba6V\">https:\/\/t.co\/PBDB2Dba6V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Congressman Al Green (@RepAlGreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAlGreen\/status\/1172155272489578497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump lies so often that it&#8217;s becoming a passe affair that gets ignored in the press. That should never happen. He&#8217;s still the President and such dishonesty is an abhorrent trait that must be called out as a destructive assault on democracy every time it happens. But inventing quotes by members of Congress takes his noxious behavior light years down the road to tyranny. It cannot be tolerated by patriotic Americans. And the fear that triggers this sort of moral fraudulence must be recognized as a dangerous manifestation of mental infirmity. By making up quotes about his impeachment, Trump is only affirming the necessity that he be impeached.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAlGreen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepAlGreen<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m concerned if we don\u2019t impeach this president, he will get re-elected. &#8230; We must impeach him.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3cwG7eFIdy\">pic.twitter.com\/3cwG7eFIdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1124849617928163328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Congress returned from its summer recess and almost immediately got to work by voting to proceed with an inquiry into Donald Trump and the case for his impeachment. The House Judiciary Committee passed a resolution that set the procedures and rules for future impeachment investigation hearings. Committee chair Jerry Nadler made clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36089,"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":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[1215,554,39,1365],"class_list":["post-42721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-jerrold-nadler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-impeach.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-b73","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43387,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43387","url_meta":{"origin":42721,"position":0},"title":"Where in the World is Donald Trump? 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