{"id":38890,"date":"2020-02-05T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38890"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:20:42","slug":"the-state-of-the-republican-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/the-state-of-the-republican-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Republican Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Nancy Pelosi told a lie.  She said, \u201cthe President of the United States\u201d.  I looked at the screen, but there was no President there, just the criminal Resident Donald Trump”*  Then his lies began, as soon as he began to speak, and I knew this would be no SOTU.  It was the State of the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0205Pelosi\"<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi\u2019s hands told the story of a nauseating night in Washington.<\/p>\n

As Donald Trump took his place at the front of the House chamber for his third and possibly final State of the Union address, the House speaker and most senior Democrat in Congress reached out for a handshake, only to be rebuffed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Seventy-eight minutes later, Pelosi, as she often tends to, got her revenge by ripping up her copy of the president\u2019s speech while still in her position on the dais<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Pelosi was the mastermind of Trump\u2019s impeachment in this very chamber just weeks ago, staining his record in future school textbooks for all time.<\/p>\n

But somehow, with seven of the Democrats who had pressed the impeachment case against him as impeachment managers glaring up at him from a prominent position, the president, like Bill Clinton before him, managed to resist using the \u201ci\u201d word throughout his speech. That, at least, was a departure from his gloves-off campaign rallies.<\/p>\n

Yet Trump being forced to suppress his id was somehow even worse. The tension, grievance and resentment seething below the surface was almost palpable. The president\u2019s tissue of lies and partisan swipes left Democrats heckling, throwing up their hands or walking out of the chamber in despair<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Guardian<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Fuhrer Trump\u2019s* speech was wall-to-wall lies!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Here are seven notable lies that Trump told during the speech:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cWe will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one was flagged by CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale before Trump began speaking. Republicans, despite claiming credit for President Barack Obama\u2019s achievement at passing into law protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, are in fact backing a lawsuit that seeks to dismantle those protections.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cThanks to our bold regulatory reduction campaign, the United States has become the #1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dale flagged this one as false too, explaining: \u201cThe US became #1 in 2012, under Obama, though its advantage has grown under Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

I shared two. Click through for the other five.<\/font><\/p>\n

Joe Scarborough covered Trump\u2019s* lies and more.<\/font><\/p>\n

Joe: How Do You Call It A Good Speech If It’s Fed By Lies?<\/a><\/p>\n