Liberals have discovered a new word

Lie: “to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive”  

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Like a teenager who just learned a new SAT word, the left is using and misusing this word to characterize President Trump’s statements.  From his most recent “last night in Sweden” remark to his assertion that the murder rate is at its highest mark in 47 years, liberals have incorrectly labeled Trump as “intending to deceive.”

MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell went so far as to crown himself “the enemy of Trump lies.”  Interestingly, the concept of lying has been noticeably absent from liberal vocabulary for the last eight years.

This characterization was nowhere to be found when President Barack Obama’s then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on five Sunday talk shows and blamed the Benghazi attacks on a YouTube video. In lockstep, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton allegedly assured the families of the four dead Americans that she would get the videomaker; this promise came despite Clinton knowing full well that terrorists were to blame.  

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Indeed, Clinton wrote in two emails in the immediate aftermath of Benghazi that these Americans “were killed in Benghazi by an al Qaeda-like group” not at the hands of a spontaneous protest triggered by a video.  Nevertheless, she purportedly deceived the families of these American heroes.

The “L-word” was absent when the Obama administration promised 37 times “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it,” only to be followed by millions of Americans losing their plans and doctors en masse.  According to NBC, the “Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance.”  Liberals, nevertheless, played the naiveté card.

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“Lying” allegations were nonexistent when Hillary Clinton vowed that she “did not email any classified material to anyone on my email” only to be followed by a revised vow that she “never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received” before finally arriving at the promise that she “never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”  

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Is your head spinning?  Mine too!  Clinton’s evolving and lawyerly defenses of course came as the evidence of her sending and receiving classified information became public.  As the facts grew, so too did evidence of Clinton’s intentional deception.  Rather than label the Obama and Clinton duplicities as lies, liberals rationalized them. Obama and Clinton did not intend to deceive, and thus they did not “lie.”

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Rice and Clinton were caught up in “the fog of war” during Benghazi, as Clinton stated to a congressional panel.  Obama did not realize millions would lose their plans.  And Clinton, despite having three decades of government experience, just did not know how to handle classified information.

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In other words, because these liberals did not intend to deceive – a questionable notion at best, given the facts – they did not lie.   

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If the left would use this same exacting precision in analyzing the words of President Trump, not only would they find that Trump is not “lying” but that he lacks the nefarious cover-up motives involved in several of the aforementioned Democratic mistruths.  

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For instance, I was at Trump’s Saturday rally in Melbourne, Fla., where he urged his audience to “look at what’s happening last night in Sweden.”  The left used Trump’s vague statement to impart sinister suspicion.  “How dare he make up a terrorist attack!?” and  “liar!” were but a few of the apoplectic freak-outs.  Meanwhile, the person beside me heard it entirely differently.  “He’s referring to information he gathered regarding Sweden last night,” this person said.  

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Trump’s clarification on Twitter that his “last night” remark indeed referred to a Friday night Fox News segment on crime in Sweden validated the latter interpretation over the former.  Nevertheless, the former interpretation was adopted as gospel.

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The left’s “lying” narrative was again on full display when Trump stated that the murder rate was the highest it has been in 47 years.  The liberals accused Trump of intentionally planting a false statistic, but they ought to have done a cursory Google search, which would have clarified exactly what Trump was getting at: the U.S. had just seen the biggest increase in murders in 45 years.  Trump used this statistic several times throughout the campaign, and Politifact rated his statement as “mostly true.”  But this time Trump left out one word — increase — and the left lost it, resorting to the “lying” label.  

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The truth is liberals are using every tactic possible to drown the Trump presidency.  False allegations of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and now lying each have their own chapter in the Trump takedown playbook.  As it turns out, the only lies being told are not by President Donald Trump but by liberals, who will hypocritically mischaracterize Trump’s every action.  They do so intentionally – the very definition of a “lie.”

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~ Kayleigh McEnany is a CNN political commentator who recently received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and also studied politics at Oxford University. 

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The lie that is Hillary
A list of her ‘accomplishments’ reveals a suspect pattern

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Many of us remember the classic line from the “Seinfeld” show, that “it’s not a lie if you believe it.” Applying that theme to the evolution of Hillary Rodham, then Hillary Rodham Clinton, and now just plain Hillary Clinton, here are the notable accomplishments of her “public service” career:

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• Flunked the D.C. Bar Exam.

• Was removed from her House Judiciary Committee staffer job because of incompetence and lying.

• The Whitewater scandal.

• Married a serial liar and cheater, who occasionally had sexual encounters with nonconsenting partners.

• Lied about “sniper fire” in an attempt to simulate exposure to danger in a war zone.

• The subject of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that led to the impeachment and disbarment of her husband

• Took crockery, furniture, artwork and other items from the White House — had to return and/or pay for them.

• Said “what difference, at this point, does it make” about four brave people killed in Libya as a direct result of her failure to protect them on the anniversary of 9/11.

• Totally ignored the structure and rules for the handling of sensitive national security information.

• Amassed a personal fortune with “speaking fees” and payments from private sector political donors and foreign governments into transparent “foundations” in obvious exchange for future political favor.

Two conclusions emerge from this nefarious list of “accomplishments”:

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First, Hillary’s brief solo “professional” career [without Bill] was a total failure, and of her own doing. This despite high-level political sponsorship to get her a key “entry level” job as a legal staffer on the Nixon Impeachment investigation in the early 1970s. But she flunked the D.C. Bar Exam [perhaps the easiest in those days] and got fired from her staff job.

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Second, she is identified today in friendly media solely by her “career” post-marriage to Bubba. This is the part that Barack Obama recently described as making her “probably the best qualified person ever to run for president.” This is both laughable and ironic, as she is better qualified than was Mr. Obama, arguably the most unqualified person ever elected president. And, as presidential aspirants go, they had one professional “qualification” in common: Neither had ever worked in a “real job.”

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After she and Bill left the White House [along with the furniture, crockery and artwork they took with them] she simply punched her ticket with two more political gigs that were handed to her. Neither of which identify her as anything but an opportunist, saying and doing whatever necessary to perpetuate her “new” political career, this while biding her time until she could run for president — twice.

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Her time as a senator from New York was purely a block-checking exercise to stay “relevant.” Best illustrating this is the question: Why didn’t they go back to Arkansas? Easy, returning to Arkansas would have been the political — and financial — end for them and they knew it. It’s the same reason the Obamas are not returning to Chicago. And in this context, look for an “Obama Foundation” that rakes in money and a series of Hillary-style political appointments for Michelle — after all, she flunked the Bar Exam too.

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More than anything else, Hillary’s campaign is counting on the “newer” American voters to simply not remember her and Bill’s checkered political and legal past. Accordingly, we can expect a Republican campaign replay of the 1990s: Bill’s Impeachment, the Star investigation, Bill’s disbarment for lying, her Rose Law Firm partner going to jail — and on and on and on — as supplemented by her latest scandals: Benghazi, “speaking” fees and classified emails.

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So, is Hillary “really” qualified to be president, or is it just a lie she believes after so many years with “slick Willy” and a series of political jobs?

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Sadly, her flakey “qualifications” may not matter at all — because if she wins, it will likely be a repeat of the 1992 election debacle: Remember that Bill would never have been elected had it not been for the third party “spoiler” candidacy of H. Ross Perot, who took 20 million votes away from George H.W. Bush — literally giving the election away and beginning the Clinton protracted political soap opera we are still dealing with.

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Will it happen again? Will the latest rupture in the Republican Party work to elect “crooked Hillary,” the other half of the Clinton sleaze team? Will horny old Bill — again — be on “intern patrol” in the White House and “feeling our pain”?

These are the “truthful” parts of the lie that have most of us saying: “is this really the best we can do?”.

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