Nadene Goldfoot
President Donald TrumpTo answer John Arlon's opinion in a CNN article about Trump when he wrote, "Let me say it more plainly: it is not biased to describe Trump as a liar. It is a matter of objective and demonstrable fact. The Washington Post has catalogued more than 22,000 false or misleading claims over the course of his time in office -- and those are just the ones that he's uttered in public."
The Washington Post happens to be a very biased Democratic newspaper. It is owned by : Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos and is a Nash Holdings. . The Washington Post has a Lean Left media bias. AllSides rates The Washington Post bias as Lean Left with high confidence. Here they are running false statements together with misleading claims in their count of saying 22,000 of what? He's writing about the act of lying. They are insinuating that these were all lies. Talk about exaggeration! They have a tremendous circulation. Circulation: 356,768 (Daily, 2015); 838,014 (Sunday, 2013); 1,000,000 (Digital, 2018). Everything they write should be taken with a grain of salt as well. They are of opposing opinions and their job is to defend their party lines when writing about Trump.
John wrote, "A core component of President Donald Trump's coalition is evangelical Christians -- people who have righteously railed against a lack of character and ethics in the White House in the past and advocated for a return to family values. This presumably does not include lying." Doesn't this depend on each category's % of the US population?
This is why they voted for Trump, being he was not a politician, only a businessman.) Politicians were seen to lie all the time, promising things and never coming through. For instance, presidents have all been promising to make Jerusalem the site for the US Embassy but it hadn't been moved there till Trump became president who said he would and did.
The Pew Center takes the opinion from their research that White Evangelical Protestants will vote for Trump anywhere from 53% to 78% and Biden from 17% to 43%. Black Protestants will vote the opposite way, from 9% for Trump to 90% for Biden. White Catholics will vote for Biden anywhere from 52% to 44%. 11% of Atheists will vote for Trump and 90% will vote for Biden. 27% of Jews will vote for Trump and 70% for Biden. It doesn't look good for Trump gaining a 2nd Term.
Trump married to immigrant Melania, former modelWhite Christians are a key segment of the electorate because they make up roughly 44% of U.S. registered voters. Roughly 7% of registered voters are Black Protestants, 5% are Hispanic Catholics, 2% are Jewish and 28% are religiously unaffiliated. Blacks make up 13.4% of our US population. If they all voted, it would make a change in the statistics. We are already seeing a surge in voters voting early.
As of May 2020, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republican, and 40% as Independent.
Additionally, polling showed that 50% are either "Democrats or Democratic leaners" and 38% are either "Republicans or Republican leaners" when Independents are asked "do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?"
And while the new survey did not ask respondents to rate Trump’s handling of his job as president, past polls show that approval of Trump’s performance has generally hovered within a fairly narrow range among most religious groups.
Usually we Americans are concerned about how a president handled his job in his first term and use that as a guide for the 2nd term. If he was successful, he usually gets a pass. Ronald Reagan was in for 2 terms. So were George Walker Bush and Obama. Clinton was in from 1993 to 2001 and up on charges of not being honest about having sex with a young gal working at the White House. My mother was so disappointed, saying that he had handled our money so well, finally being in the black and not in the red. She felt that what he did with the girl wasn't as important as how he handled our money!
He chose Judge Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court
It looks like all our basic TV stations are have been biased against Trump ever since Hillary Clinton lost her race to Trump. He really upset all their plans. Only Fox came through sharing his views. No one man is perfect. I don't agree with Trump on his health views in handling the COVID 19 virus. However, he is the first president to be backing Israel, and that happens to be our first in 2,000 years of any backing, and a first for the USA, being in the same category as Truman who voted for Israel when she became a state in 48. I've had to wait for the past 72 years to find another backer of Israel!
Of course I don't abide lying in any man, even my president. In this case, I also have ethics to think about. I know and feel that Trump has been wrongly persecuted by the party I was disgusted with; while frantically worrying over Israel's position in the world which included their entire population's life. I lived there for over 5 years and know how little Americans know about what it's like and the strain the people have been living under along with their joy. I have to weigh in what's the most important to me; his character of "lying", be it true or just false accusations politically motivated, or the doing the most for Israel's existence. We've waited over 2,000 years to have our state again. Was I going to blow that fact away and side with Iranian power who have been threatening Israel's life like I thought possible under a Democrat president?
Trump talks too much. He blurts out. I know. It reminds me of ADHD behavior. He does not have a photographic memory and so exaggerates, and many other things making up his unique person. As a businessman, I was shocked with how much knowledge he did display in the last debate, lies or not-it sounded pretty good, a 100% improvement over his first one. With me he gets B+ in Middle East Relations and an F in science. The Herd mentality may be an opinion but it isn't good science. It's the thinking of a man trying to keep our economy going and ignoring that too many of us can die from it. Others see his point, but dead bodies can be counted.
Donald Trump came to our media attention by saying he didn't think Barack Obama was an American citizen because thought he was born out of the USA in Africa because of having an African father, and set about to find the truth. Well, he was wrong. He was born in Hawaii, which became a state on August 21, 1959, being a Territory before that. He was born August 4, 1961 when the state was only 2 years old. Aha!
He was sent to a military academy.
Trump was born June 14, 1946 in New York City, and is 13 years older than Obama. He opted to leave his Democratic politics and ran on a Republican ticket, not making some Republicans very happy. As soon as he took office, the Democrats were trying to impeach him. This ire has gone on for all 4 years, and I think finally is affecting Trump.
All the good things he has done are being ignored, like appointing Nikki Haley as our US Ambassador to the UN. She's been the best! It's the first time someone gave "heck" to the UN about Israel and being tough with them, and she's neither Jewish nor a male. He let Jared Kushner, who happens to be an orthodox Jew and his son-in-law, run the show with Israel and the Palestinians and he has come up with 3 Arab countries making peace with Israel; UAE, Bahrain, and now Sudan.
My country or at least half of it were out to get Trump from day 1. They used every dirty trick in the book in my opinion without getting in any trouble for it. Was that enough to claim everything he said was a lie compared to what he did for Israel? Even with his lack of understanding science, and allowing the USA to have more deaths from the virus than other countries, what am I to do? It's an ethical question. We'll find out how the country handles their voting in 9 more days or so.
Voting reminds me of Yom Kippur when our names are to go into the Book of Life to see who gets to live another year, and our merits and sins are weighed on a scale. That's what we are doing in making our decisions.
Resource:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-why-evangelicals-should-care-about-trumps-lies-and-other-sins/ar-BB1amJa7?ocid=se
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/13/white-christians-continue-to-favor-trump-over-biden-but-support-has-slipped/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/09/16/trump-says-with-a-herd-mentality-covid-19-coronavirus-will-go-away/#7fbcd4aa1dde
https://www.biography.com/political-figure/nikki-haley
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