Yes, former President Trump lied and the mainstream media enjoyed publishing a so-called count of those lies. The question is, why don't they publish a count of President Biden's lies with the same glee?
According to a National Review article about President Biden's lies: "No, he wasn’t arrested in South Africa while attempting to meet Nelson Mandela; Israeli prime minster Golda Meir never asked him to be her liaison between Israel and the Egyptians concerning the Suez Canal; he never hit a 368-foot shot that bounced off the outfield wall in the congressional baseball game; and there’s no evidence that he confronted Vladimir Putin face to face and told the Russian dictator that he didn’t think Putin had a soul. Besides revealing Biden to be an insufferable braggart, these stories offer reason to think Biden cannot see himself accurately or remember his own past clearly. In his stories, he’s always the toughest and smartest guy in the room, bold, brave, strong, the best of the best. Every foe is intimidated, and every ally is starstruck by his genius. It’s a fantasy world, a happy escape from the messy reality before him each day."
"If today’s president ignores warnings — say, to keep Bagram Air Base open in Afghanistan instead of closing up shop before everyone is evacuated as the Taliban closes in — and based on disregards counter-evidence, it reflects his hubris and an unearned faith in his own instincts and judgment. Biden’s worldview is built upon a misremembered happy fog of past victories and everything working out great. Perhaps you can argue that statements like these aren’t conscious, deliberate lies, but a commander in chief who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality is likely just as dangerous."
"…Biden insisted that the tide of migrants at the border was just part of a routine seasonal pattern, that the Afghan army was sufficiently trained and equipped to repel the Taliban, that no serious economist was suggesting that unchecked inflation was on the way, and so on."
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/08/14/are-trumps-or-bidens-lies-worse/
The article also addresses President Biden's false claims regarding reducing the national debt by half (as opposed to the deficit). He has claimed that his coke-addled son, Hunter, has "done nothing wrong" only to have Hunter admit that he hadn't paid taxes for two years and that he had lied on a federal form to purchase a firearm. Additionally, President Biden, until recently, refused to acknowledge the existence of one of Hunter's children as his seventh grandchild. He allegedly instructed his aides to declare that the child doesn't exist. Those were obviously lies.
President Biden has repeatedly lied about the citizen-crushing inflation as a result of his policies. Insisting that "there's nobody suggesting there's unchecked inflation on the way, no serious economist". This despite inflation increasing from 5.4% when his statement was made on its way to 9.1% the following June.
Why are President Trump's supposed lies any worse than President Biden's and why doesn't the press gleefully report their often occurrence?
You allege that a quote from the attorney for one of the convicted January 6th rioters refers to President Trump being "dumb as shit". But, your sentence indicates the attorney was speaking about HIS CLIENT [emphasis mine]. His client was not President Trump, but one of the January 6th rioters according to your own paragraph.
I love how you give Donald Trump credit for employing a winning strategy for a Presidential Election never before tried while at the same time implying in the article you wrote that he is dumb. Although you also wrote that he simply "pretends to be illiterate in order to piss off people like you and me". Which is it? Actually dumb and illiterate or simply pretending to be so?
Finally, there need not be a "strategy" to win the popular vote for President. The overall goal is to be elected President. Anybody Constitutionally literate or the least familiar with the last several election results knows having the most popular votes is not necessarily an indicator of the victor.
Republican strategists have recognized this being the case since at least 2000. Democrats realize their stranglehold on large populations in areas benefiting from Democrat's largess with taxpayer money may not win them the Presidency. Hence, that's why Democrat "experts" on the Constitution and their media allies often refer to the Electoral College as "racist". That's also why Democrats and their allies have been pushing the National Popular Vote Compact to convince citizens to forfeit their impact on Electoral College votes by tying their state's electoral college votes to the national popular vote.
