(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Everything Donald tells us is a lie. Again. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-15 Always more difficult to correct truth with a lie after the fact. CNN — Democrats are seizing on Donald Trump’s characterization of Milwaukee as a “horrible” city, attempting to make the former president pay politically for dissing the most populous part of a key swing state — and one that will host Republicans’ national convention in July. “In a state that’s decided on a razor’s edge, that may ultimately cost Donald Trump the election,” Cavalier Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Wisconsin’s largest city, told CNN’s Laura Coates on Thursday night. The Democratic National Committee said Friday it was launching 10 billboards across the city featuring Trump’s comments. President Joe Biden’s campaign immediately began selling T-shirts and stickers with images of Wisconsin, with Milwaukee’s location marked on them, and the words: “(Not) a Horrible City.” www.cnn.com/… Milwaukee has a higher violent crime rate than the national average in the US. There were reports of a decrease in homicides in the first quarter of 2024 compared to 2023 [reliable source about crime rate in Milwaukee 2024]. Technically Milwaukee may have a higher crime rate than Ho Chi Minh City. Consistent with his unconventional style, Trump has added a new tool to his campaign bag of tricks. In a private meeting with congressional Republicans, Trump expressed his visceral distaste for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the city that will be hosting the Republican National Convention where next month, barring any unforeseen liberation from the grip of Felonious Punk, he will officially be nominated as the GOP’s candidate for president. Trump didn’t mince words, calling Milwaukee a “horrible city.” Hasnie: Democrats are also hitting you on this comment that you made about Milwaukee, the host city for the RNC. And they seem to believe that you said that it was a horrible city. Can you just nip this in the bud and clarify what you meant? Trump: It was very clear what I meant. I said, we’re very concerned with crime. www.newscorpse.com/... x Reminder that the @GOP used a picture of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam as it's image of Milwaukee on it's website for the RNC: https://t.co/xkIuNIFGCL — Fed Up Republican (@FedUpGOPer) June 13, 2024 What happens when a powerful person makes — and repeats — a false claim? In this case, the danger is that people will underestimate a deadly disease and fail to take precautions to protect themselves — as many Americans have. But the cumulative effect of constantly repeated falsehoods is even more insidious: it undermines truth altogether, leaving public discourse unmoored from fact. “The constant repetition of the lie is the way to make truth meaningless,” Timothy Egan writes in a New York Times op-ed. “After a while, people come to ‘believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true,’ wrote Hannah Arendt, the German-born philosopher, in describing how truth lost its way in her native land.” www.psychologytoday.com/... Adams: Yeah, Trump is the majority stakeholder in Truth Social, and he did just get an even bigger share of the company. So Trump Media went public by merging with a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company. And as part of that merger agreement, if the stock price stayed at about $17.50 for 20 consecutive trading days, which it did, Trump would get an extra 36 million shares in the company. That brings his total to 114 million, almost two-thirds of all the shares available. So here’s Jay Ritter at the University of Florida again. Ritter: So the price has gone up, and the number of shares has gone up. And when you take these two things into account, his paper wealth has almost doubled in the last two weeks to $5 billion in this company. Adams: But Trump can’t sell those shares until September unless he gets a waiver from the company’s board, which is likely since that’s made up of his family and inner circle. But it would need [Securities and Exchange Commission] approval. And Ritter says it’s going to be hard for Trump to convert all this to cash anytime soon. Of course, if the price of the stock goes down before Trump sells, which many short sellers are hoping it will, that would decrease how much the former president stands to make. Adams: Yeah, Trump is the majority stakeholder in the company, and he did just get an even bigger share of the company. So Trump Media went public by merging with a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company. And as part of that merger agreement, if the stock price stayed at about $17.50 for 20 consecutive trading days, which it did, Trump would get an extra 36 million shares in the company. That brings his total to 114 million, almost two-thirds of all the shares available. So here’s Jay Ritter at the University of Florida again. Ritter: So the price has gone up, and the number of shares has gone up. And when you take these two things into account, his paper wealth has almost doubled in the last two weeks to $5 billion in this company. Adams: But Trump can’t sell those shares until September unless he gets a waiver from the company’s board, which is likely since that’s made up of his family and inner circle. But it would need [Securities and Exchange Commission] approval. And Ritter says it’s going to be hard for Trump to convert all this to cash anytime soon. Of course, if the price of the stock goes down before Trump sells, which many short sellers are hoping it will, that would decrease how much the former president stands to make. (May2024) www.marketplace.org/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/15/2246843/-Everything-Donald-tells-us-is-a-lie-Again?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/