{"id":342,"date":"2017-03-07T15:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2017-03-07T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T00:08:23","slug":"is-it-wise-or-even-possible-to-believe-anything-truimp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/342","title":{"rendered":"Is It Wise, Or Even Possible, To Believe Anything Trump Says?…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14,\u00a02016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27.<\/p>\n

And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal of May 13, 2016 confirms<\/span><\/u><\/a> Trump met with Kislyak. The Journal goes even farther and says Trump \u201cwarmly\u201d greeted the Russian ambassador:<\/p>\n

Skip<\/p>\n

Trump and his aides have repeatedly denied that anyone on Trump\u2019s team, including Trump himself, had any contacts with Russian officials during the presidential campaign. Yet\u00a0we continue to find\u00a0out, drip by drip, that those denials were\u00a0wrong.<\/p>\n

But according to Newsmax, in an article titled \u201cPutin \u2018Pleased\u2019 With Trump,\u201d<\/span><\/u><\/a> Kislyak didn\u2019t simply attend Trump\u2019s big foreign policy speech, the Russian ambassador also attended a VIP reception that day at\u00a0which he met Trump.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s this:<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, Exxon announced<\/span><\/u><\/a> that it will spend $20 billion over the course of a decade at 11 proposed and existing refining and chemical manufacturing sites. In the process, the company anticipates adding more than 45,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

President Trump wasted no time in taking credit, even releasing a statement<\/span><\/u><\/a> the same hour that copied many of Exxon\u2019s own sentences and an entire paragraph word for word.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump made a promise to bring back jobs to America,\u201d the White House statement said. \u201cThe spirit of optimism sweeping the country is already boosting job growth, and it is only the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Facebook video, Trump went further to take credit for the announcement. \u201cThis is something that was done to a large extent because of our policies and the policies of this new administration,\u201d he said. \u201cI said we\u2019re bringing back jobs, this is one big example of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Exxon itself said in its release that this isn\u2019t really new. The investments it announced on Tuesday were begun in 2013 and will continue through at least 2022, beginning before and extending past Trump\u2019s current term in office. Many of them were announced and even in process<\/span><\/u><\/a> before the election: one in 2012, two in 2014, and one last year; the most recent one in Corpus Christi, TX, was announced in July.<\/p>\n

At least one of them, a lubricant plant in Baton Rouge, LA, is already completed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald J. Trump is a pathological liar. A liar that 43% of our country believe in. What kind of disaster will it take before these people realize the truth?<\/p>\n

Read the full stories HERE <\/strong><\/em><\/a>and HERE<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14,\u00a02016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27. And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it? UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal of May 13, 2016 confirms Trump met with Kislyak. … Continue reading Is It Wise, Or Even Possible, To Believe Anything Trump Says?…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-5w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":306,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/306","url_meta":{"origin":342,"position":0},"title":"Following Trumps Address To Congress He Quickly Returns To The Old (True) Trump…","author":"Les","date":"March 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"President Trump is back to playing Twitter in Chief. 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