When details of the exchange leaked in 1986, Reagan was forced to explain why America was selling missiles to a sworn enemy, while intervening in Nicaragua, which Congress had forbade. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have considered keeping their word of little account, and have known how to beguile mens minds by shrewdness and cunning. 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Jayapal blasted the West Virginia senator for what she termed a lack of integrity that is stunning in the wake of his decision. Politicians and lawyers are not allowed to enter the competition, because "they are judged to be too skilled at telling porkies". Abraham Lincoln, arguably our greatest president, was nicknamed Honest Abe. Instead of investigating the first 100 days in terms of productivity or promises kept, lets look at another characteristic: honesty. The U.S. had been spying on North Vietnam, coordinating South Vietnamese attacks on the North. Progressives were apoplectic about Manchins conduct. Still, for President Obama, the enda broader, fairer healthcare systemjustified the means. As his first year draws to a close, Biden has both shown his power and been reminded of its limitations. In August 1964, in Vietnams Gulf of Tonkin, two U.S. ships were reported attacked. Ocasio-Cortez got 86% of those donations from donors giving under $200; Greenes percentage was 78%, and Gaetzs was 72%. There's a lot of competition for the title of "the biggest liar in Congress," as you might imagine, but there's really only one winner. Still, as a liar, Obama is a real lightweight. Is this the US president most like Trump? "We did not, I repeat, did not trade weapons or anything else [to Iran] for hostages, nor will we." He later nominated Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for the post. Still, President Trump told more false statements than President Biden and President Obama during their first 100 days. Others, like shifty-eyed Richard Nixon, were just pathological. And he is back on offense against internal foes, deriding Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as an old crow.. Six senators cited the incubators story as justification for authorising the conflict, notes MacArthur. The 7 Biggest Liars in Presidential History AlterNet and Larry Schwartz January 29, 2016 America is built on the myth of honesty. The North attacks on U.S. ships were fabricated. The most traditional big lie: Trump didn't know about the payment to Stormy Daniels We've established that Trump was not your traditional political liar. Why the FTC Must Investigate Hollywoods End Run Around Parents, Irans Mullahs Use Ramadan to Crush Dissent. Graham calls Marjorie Taylor Greenes praise of US intelligence leaker GOP education committee chair: I dont know what a trans girl is, Here are the House, Senate members who have endorsed Trump for 2024, Man removed from NYC crime hearing after shouting insults at Schiff. [4] The previous year Graham's winning lie was that a World War II German submarine had invaded Britain to capture digital television decoders. I know you're probably busy and still stuffed from Thursday, but while I have your attention can you pitch in $10?". Woodrow Wilson 33. That shows the congresswoman still has plenty of political capital heading into 2022. Some of them were really good at it, like Franklin Roosevelt. If those Democrats win, they will be grateful and loyal to Schiff for helping them. It appears that from the beginning, the leaker sought to impress its young members, writing messages heavy with acronyms and jargon, posting classified documents, at first typing up verbatim transcripts and then leaking actual documents which appeared to have been physically removed from a secure place and photographed. [1] Competition rules bar the use of props or scripts. Naval patrols were providing Britain with intelligence on German submarines, and ships were ordered to shoot at German subs upon sight. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust. He lies even when he doesn't have to lie.". Until the Bush/Cheney presidency came along, the war in U.S. history that could truly be labeled a debacle was Vietnam. The survey comes as social media platforms Twitter and Facebook have taken steps to tamp down the spread of misinformation on both the coronavirus pandemic and the election. There was no unprovoked attack. After being elected, LBJ quietly sent the first US combat forces to the jungles and rice paddies of the war zone, eventually deploying more than half a million troops. Independents blame everybody: Trump, 74%; congressional Republicans, 77%; Biden, 58%, and congressional Democrats, 70%. To todays GOP, Reagan was beloved and his presidency resided over a shining city on a hill," as his campaign commercials portrayed America. The left gave up its leverage, and Manchin thwarted the big social spending plan. You're always thinking that these politicians are liars, so now's your chance to speak up. The 1,269 adults queried Sept. 11-24 trust what they hear from their closest friends and immediate family members the most, followed by extended family, friends and co-workers, and government agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Ex-prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif top the list with corruption of round about $30 billion. Misinformation about China's threat to the U.S. Biden consistently downplayed the threat that China poses to the U.S. and the free world in general. "Hey friend it's me again," Schiff's fundraising email under the subject line, "Hey, it's Adam," starts. Those surveyed said its wrong to spread misinformation even if it helps a candidate they support with just 3% saying its OK. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race., And yet he also said, "I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest; that negro slavery is violative of that principle.. Read about our approach to external linking. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) The truth was that the Johnson administration had already drawn up plans for putting military pressure on North Vietnam, a communist government which the U.S. was convinced was the first domino in the fall of Asia to Soviet and Chinese domination. Reagan never left America during World War Two. Every reader contribution, no matter the amount, makes a difference in allowing our newsroom to bring you the stories that matter, at a time when being informed is more important than ever. Presidential campaign lying in the United States dates to the earliest days of the republic. But the 79-year-old McConnell spent much of the year proving that he could be just as formidable a roadblock for Biden as he had been for much of former President Obamas tenure. Bidens decisions sometimes backfired, by far the most ignominious example being the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The company is based at the same North Dighton, Massachusetts, address where Teixeira is understood to live. American journalists failed to debunk the Nayirah testimony until after the war. Boebert faced calls for similar action after she smeared Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as a supposed terrorist sympathizer. Compulsive liars Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson both made it into the top 10. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., known for taking on her own party, brought in $1.3 million in the first three months of 2023, according to FEC filings, more than twice the $674,000 Gaetzs campaign raised. William McKinley: McKinley assured Congress that Spain blew up the U.S.S. Deployed in the 102nd intelligence wing of the Massachusetts air national guard, Teixeira was also a key member of a group of about 30 people who shared an interest in guns, video games and racist memes. PolitiFact categorizes statements into one of six groups: (1) True, (2) Mostly true, (3) Half true, (4) Mostly false, (5) False, and (6) Pants on fire. That cash would then go to Nicaragua, to fund the. ", He even expressly denied the equality of black people: I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black racesthat I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. But there was a darker side to OG too. Terrorists killed 220 marines in Beirut on Reagans watch, which Reagan responded to, not with resolve, but by cutting and running. The survey listed 13 potential sources of misinformation, and Trump and social media had the dubious distinction of coming out on top. McCarthy slams Biden, makes case for GOP moving on debt ceiling in the Watch live: White House monkeypox response team holds briefing, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Presidents lie, even our most admired ones. More than four in five of those polled said they were either very (48%) or somewhat (33%) concerned misinformation on social media would affect the outcome of the 2020 election, with 62% of Democrats, 36% of Republicans and 40% of independents expressing those sentiments. America is built on the myth of honesty. His numbers continually slip and this is mostly to blame for his approval of Clinton as a candidate. Gaetz's campaign sent seven fundraising emails during the five days of the speaker's election, according to an archive from politicalemails.org, and three more emails about the speakers race during the week after it ended. Chester Arthur 9. The controversies were in many ways a dispiriting reminder of how coarse and belligerent the political culture has become. A few months later he admitted, "A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. President Bidens deception rate might still appear high, but the number of fact-checked statements is small (4). Many of Trump's comments in the Washington Post catalogue will no doubt prove equally forgettable. Oklahoma governor calls for resignations after county officials reportedly GOP confronts raucous field hearing on NYC crime, Trump picks up two more endorsements from Senate Republicans. Fundraising off controversy is nothing new in American politics. "But Donald Trump is the Frankenstein's monster of a political system that has not merely tolerated lies from our leaders, but has come to demand them.". Not only is the 45th President of the USA the most famous liar in the world today, he is also, by far, the most prolific among world leaders. John Kennedy (R-La.) Gosar was censured by the House after he tweeted an animated video depicting a cartoon version of himself killing a character made to look like Ocasio-Cortez. 5 min read. [1], In 2008, John "Johnny Liar" Graham won the competition for the seventh time after telling the judges a story of a magical ride to Scotland in a wheelie bin that went under the sea. Ukraine impacted multiple ways by leaked US material, Kansas City homeowner accused of shooting Black teen charged with two felonies, Two-thirds say Congress shouldnt interfere with Trump legal probes: poll, Ex-Biden chief of staff Ron Klain rejoins law firm OMelveny. At the time of this writing, President Trump was a more deceptive president than President Biden or President Obama in their first 100 days. Just give a guy whose seat is as safe as they come $10 and you can protect the world from Orange Man Bad. The inauguration of a new president, the long shadow of the Jan. 6 insurrection and the pandemics peaks and troughs made 2021 another tumultuous year. Narendra Modi, there is no competition. Marco Rubio employed a similar strategy during his 2016 presidential run, as did President Joe Biden during the 2020 campaign. When we got a president who promised never to lie to us, as Jimmy Carter did in 1976, many thought he was not particularly effective and voters tossed him out on his ear in 1980, for a master Machiavellian prince named Ronald Reagan. "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars," he told voters in Boston. And you can't count on Schiff going anywhere near a media personality who would ask him any serious questions about that smoke. Polk tried to buy the land from Mexico, sending an envoy, John Slidell, with an offer of $30 million to hand over the territory, along with accepting the Rio Grande as the Texas border. Biden has put his mark on the nation with the huge $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed in March, as well as the infrastructure bill. Many of these utterances, such as about golf or his wealth or whether it snowed at one of his rallies, sound relatively trifling. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Its polarizing in two senses, both ideologically and kind of norm-breaking.. The Nazis could not fail to see these acts as provocative. In his first 100 days, President Trump had 29 statements assessed by PolitiFact (17 false) compared to 12 statements from President Obama (1 false) and 4 statements from President Biden (2 false). He told a story of how the lakes and mountains of the Cumbrian countryside had been stolen from the county of Essex, leaving it as flat as it is today. "Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, The details that have emerged about Teixeira have put him in the frame as a person of interest in the leak investigation. [1] Her winning tall tale was about how the ozone layer became damaged, ice caps melted and people had to be taken to work on camels. Twice. The head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was in many ways a counterweight to Manchin and a far more popular figure with the partys grassroots. The wannabe leader of the party of billionaires and Wall Street continues, "When the GOP is ranking in millions of dollars from corporate lobbyists and billionaire donors, $10 might not seem like much. It was Day 4 of a five-day battlein early January that Gaetz and other members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus would ultimately lose. Those qualities helped Pelosi shepherd the infrastructure bill to safe passage, even after various pundits had proclaimed that all seemed lost. He has brought lot of innovations in political India through demonetisation, GST which always troubled common man.. 3 Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Fhrer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. On Jan. 5, he brought in about $7,000, followed by$21,000 the next day and$17,000 the day after that. While professing peace, he was secretly meeting with Winston Churchill to plot ways to provide Great Britain with badly needed arms. Behind the scenes, his campaign was sending out emails to supporters asking them to donate to his campaign so he could continue the fight. 9: Mushahid Ullah Khan. There is open speculation about what Pelosis immediate future holds. Meanwhile, 1964 was an election year, and President Johnsons opponent, Barry Goldwater, was painting LBJ as weak on defense. Schiff is 61, a virtual newborn compared to the octogenarians leading the left right now. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, EJ Dionne keeps missing the point on guns, How the gun-loving South dominates these United States, 'Who wants to tell her?' The PR firm coached a purported witness, introduced as a 15-year-old girl called "Nayirah", to tearfully tell US congressmen in October 1990 that Iraqi soldiers had entered a hospital in Kuwait, removed babies from incubators and left them to die on the cold floor. One such post by Facebook page 'We Dravidians' claims that the BBC has found the BJP to be the most corrupt political party in the world. A mere day before Polk took office, the U.S. admitted Texas to the union, an act that enraged Mexico, which had designs on reacquiring the territory it lost when Texas won its independence. In a pointed tweet, Tom Nichols of the Atlantic, who himself had security clearance for 35 years, said: I hope this guy isnt the leaker, because Im gonna have some questions about how a Mass Air Guard guy got CJCS [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] briefing slides., Additional reporting by Adam Gabbatt in New York, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The term pathological liar, a controversial one for psychiatrists, in common usage coveys someone who is an extraordinarily . This page is not available in other languages. Reagan came to office in 1980 in large part due to the failure of the Carter administration to successfully free hostages in Iran who had been held for over a year. The problem, of course, is that her most significant decision eventually facilitating the passage of the infrastructure bill without a cast-iron guarantee that Build Back Better would also pass failed. Trump, on the other hand, falsely discussed US murder rates, immigration and refugees, and that he didnt know Steve Bannon before his presidential campaign. I collected data from PolitiFact, a nonprofit site that fact-checks politicians and other personalities. IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. The controversy was omitted from a recent admiring biography of Bush, and from glowing coverage of his presidency when he died in 2018. Former President Donald Trump was often accused of having a complete disregard for the truth. Underlining the suspicions that the person may have been Teixeira, the New York Times said details of the interior of his childhood home, posted on social media in family photographs, matched details on the margins of some of the photographs of the leaked secret documents. Hungry for power, he will ride Hillary Clinton's coattails fed by dark money interest as far as it will take him. America is built on the myth of honesty. Does the GOP Continue to Roll With Law And Order, Or Is It Time to Change Course? Invest with us. Thats a shame, because without Polk, Los Angeles today might well be part of Mexico, along with the rest of California and much of the Southwest United States. Castro and his soldiers were waiting for them and the rebels were easily dispatched. We can also look at these data as a percent of all fact-checked statements per president, during each 100-day period. The reverberations of the leak have spread from Kyiv to Seoul and to other global capitals, and left onlookers shaken by the hugeness of the leak and by evidence that the US has been spying on its allies. So it is with the American presidency. Nayirah, reporters were assured, was using an assumed name for fear of reprisals against her family back home. It's all a rueful reminder of the blessing carved into the mantel of the White House State Dining Room: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof. Joe Biden is the one who raised the. The civilian death toll from the fighting rose to at least 180 on Monday, with more than 1,800 civilians and combatants injured, according to Volker Perthes, the United Nations envoy to Sudan. But it was actually his French allies who masterminded the decisive battle in Virginia. A 50-year-old chiropractor in this west Texas town, he owns a small business. "We know Trump is desperate to run again. These included downplaying intelligence doubts that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, and implying he might even have a nuclear weapon, and asserting he was an ally of al-Qaeda. On Thursday evening, the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home. Machiavelli famously laid that argument out in, Meanwhile, 1964 was an election year, and President Johnsons opponent, Barry Goldwater, was painting LBJ as weak on defense. Republicans pounced on President Obama when, pushing the Affordable Healthcare Act, he promised Americans that if we wanted to keep our current health insurance, we could. His story involved betting on a snail race with Prince Charles (who advised him to remove the shell to make it more aerodynamic) and losing because his opponents cheated with battery-operated snails. The companys Facebook page had mentioned Jack Teixeira in June 2021. ", Trump lawyers deny he encouraged Capitol riots, Trump impeached for 'inciting' US Capitol riot, Teen died saving sister's life in Alabama shooting, Putin visits occupied Kherson region in Ukraine, US diplomatic convoy attacked in Sudan - Blinken, Realities dash hopes for Israel-Palestinian peace, Fighting hits Khartoum neighbourhoods - maps and images, How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happy, Who didn't make the coronation guest list? An email the next day, Jan. 6,asked "if the MAGA movement is with me in this fight to STOP McCarthy and support Trump for Speaker." In one poll in December from Echelon Insights, 71 percent of Republicans said they would back Trump in a GOP presidential primary and 86 percent said they would vote for him overBiden if he again became the Republican nominee. Even as he made his assurances, he knew his actions in office would inevitably lead to war against the Nazis and the Imperial Army of Japan. Did Britain meddle in a US presidential election? "Our November deadline is just 48 hours away. Thomas Jefferson told a European naturalist who had disparaged the New World's fauna that woolly mammoths roamed the unexplored American West. Video footage from a local TV station showed him being led away in handcuffs. Pelosi may be 81 and close to the end of an epic political career, but she hasnt lost any of her strategic wiliness or vote-counting abilities. Group members said OG would lecture them about international affairs and secretive government operations. When broken down along party lines, Democrats were nearly unanimous in their distrust of Trump and congressional Republicans, 98% and 93%, respectively, while 85% of Republicans said they distrusted Biden and 94% said they distrusted congressional Democrats. However, one historian argues that the recent tenant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, by the sheer volume of his mendacity, has destroyed the very idea of shared truth in American politics. Amazing track record of PM ModiA FACT CHECK Modi took birth twice - first on 29th August 1949 and second on 17th September 1950. "It requires years of campaigning, and only the most arrogant, ambitious and narcissistic individuals would possibly be willing to do such a thing.". For his words in the lead-up to Jan. 6 and on the day itself, Trump became the only president in history to be twice impeached. His influence is obvious; the assessment of how he used it is much more complicated. Given the state of Democrats, why wouldn't a full-blown fraud, conspiracy theorist, and liar be chosen as their next leader? Ratcliffe, a vociferous Trump defender in Congress, originally couldn't get confirmed when it turned out he overstated his experience prosecuting terrorists. In other words, President Biden might simply be an uncontroversial speaker. Bush is recorded as having publicly touted this tall tale at least six times as he blew the bugle of war. We've done it before, and we need to do it again." Influence seems too mild a word to describe the outgoing presidents incitement of the worst attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812. Thus, the Mexican-American War started on a lie. The size of her caucus it has almost 100 members is itself testament to the swelling influence of the left in the Democratic Party. But there was remarkably little public dissent about Jayapals strategy from progressive members. Teixeira was identified by the New York Times as the leading figure in an online gaming chat group, Thug Shaker Central, on the social network Discord. The irony is that it seems babies actually did perish after being removed from incubators during Gulf War One. Pool via Getty Images These efforts have all primarily targeted voters that tend to favor Democrats Black people, Latinos, Native Americans, college students, people with disabilities, and anyone who lives in cities or other localities that typically vote blue. I am a professor studying the psychology of language and technology. Andrew Johnson 10. Republicans look to extend transgender restrictions to adults, McCarthy touches on Republican plan for government spending, McCarthy marks 100 days of GOP majority in US House, McCarthy outlines the Republican debt ceiling plan, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses debt ceiling at New York Stock Exchange. Johnson's falsehoods on the Vietnam War included using an August 1964 naval attack that never happened in the Gulf of Tonkin to dramatically escalate the conflict. Donald Trump has been making all kinds of headlines these days, and for quite some time now. Lincoln lived in a time when black people were widely considered to be inferior to whites. In his first 100 days, President Trump had 29 statements assessed by PolitiFact (17 false) compared to 12 statements from President Obama (1 false) and 4 statements from President Biden (2 false). On the other hand, Adam Schiff knows what he's doing and does it deliberately, freely, and without concern for anyone finding out the facts are to the contrary of what he's saying. World's Biggest Liar is an annual competition for telling lies, held in Cumbria, England. But an investigation into whether he had lied under oath heard graphic evidence of their frolics, including that the president used a cigar with her as a sex toy after inviting the 22-year-old into the Oval Office. Many historians date this rupture to Lyndon Baines Johnson, though he was far from the first president to deceive. Copyright Townhall.com/Salem Media. The truth is, while we Americans profess to want honest leaders, what we really want are effective leaders, and sometimes lies are necessary evils if we want to get something accomplished. Those figures demonstrate that, for good or for ill, Trump is still one of the most influential politicians in the nation. 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