Trump Lies VS Obama Lies!

 

From false claims about the nation’s health to crying wolf about spyware, here is Trump Lies VS Obama Lies:

 10.

 Trump: Iraq

 During Trump’s 2016 presidential run, he stated that he opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

 Trump also claimed, after becoming president, that, “I wasn’t a fan of Iraq.

 I didn’t want to go into Iraq.” However, his track record might contradict this statement.

 During an interview with Howard Stern in 2002, Stern asked him, “Are you for invading Iraq?” Trump responded with, “Yeah, I guess so.

 You know, I wish the first time it was done correctly.”

 When asked if he believed that President George W. Bush should “do something… sooner rather than later,” Trump said, “...he has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps, because perhaps shouldn’t be doing it yet and perhaps we should be waiting for the United Nations, you know.”

 After the invasion happened, he had another interview with Fox News, during which he was asked about Wall Street’s reaction to the events in Iraq; he responded, “...I think Wall Street’s waiting to see what happens but...it looks like a tremendous success from a military standpoint.” It wasn’t until 2004 that Trump blatantly criticized the going into Iraq during an interview with Esquire Magazine, in which he said, “Look at…

 Iraq and the mess we’re in.

 I would never have handled it that way.” He then backed up his statement by talking about the people who lost their lives and others who had severe injuries.

 Trump even declared, “All this for nothing!” 9.

 Obama: Young Americans In March 2014, Obama went on Zach Galifianakis’ talk show, “Between Two Ferns.” During the interview, the two joked back and forth making small jabs at each other.

 Obama poked fun at The Hangover film series, and Galifianakis asked the former president if it would be hard in a couple years when people no longer allowed him to win at basketball and even called him a “nerd.” However, the clowning around changed slightly when Zach asked what websites he liked to surf.

 Obama asked, “Have you heard of healthcare.gov?” He went on to say, “Healthcare.gov works great now, and millions of Americans have already gotten health insurance plans… what we want is for people to know that you can get affordable healthcare; and most young Americans right now, they’re not covered.” Although the majority of their conversation was a joking matter, this last statement from Obama is false.

 According the the US Census Bureau, only 17.1 percent of people aged 19 to 25 were uninsured and 18.2 percent of people aged 26 to 34 were uninsured as of March 2014.

 The total number of people under age 65 that were uninsured at that time was 12 percent.

 8.

 Trump: Wiretaps

 In March of last year, President Trump tweeted several statements accusing former President Barack Obama’s administration of tapping his phones in Trump Tower.

 One of the Twitter posts read, “Terrible!

 Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.

 Nothing found.

 This is McCarthyism!” Another said, “How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process.

 This is Nixon/Watergate.

 Bad (or sick) guy!”

 However, as of September 2017, there was no evidence from the FBI or the Department of Justice that the former president ever arranged for Trump’s phone lines to be tapped.

 The FBI and NSD later confirmed that the tweets were indeed false statements.

 7.

 Obama: Campaign Donations A little over a year after he took office, Barack Obama sat down for an interview with John Harwood.

 While talking about The Goldman Sachs Group, Harwood stated that Obama had received around $1 million from the company’s employees during the 2008 campaign.

 He then asked him if Greg Craig’s plan to represent Goldman Sachs embarrassed him at all.

 Obama replied, “No.

 First of all, I got a lot of money from a lot of people.

 And the vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.” He also stated that the people who gave him money knew that he had actively pushed for a reformation of Wall Street’s methods of conducting business in 2007 and 2008.

 However, Obama didn’t receive most of his money from small donors; he took in about $156 million from small donors, which include people who gave $200 or less.

 Obama received about $205 million from people who donated $2,300 to $4,600.

 Any amount over $1,000 is considered a large donation.

 Goldman Sachs workers reportedly gave him $994,795 according to the CRP, which validates Harwood’s statement from the interview.

 So, although Obama did obtain more money from small donors than the competition, his remark proved false.

 6.

 Trump: Russia

 In August of last year, during a rally he held in Huntington, West Virginia, Donald Trump stated, “The Russia story is a total Fabrication.

 It’s just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of American politics.” He’s referring to Hillary Clinton’s loss during the presidential election, of course; but, the lie he told here was about the investigation concerning Russia.

 In fact, the FBI began investigating their government’s supposed attempt to influence the election since July 2016 when WikiLeaks released about 20,000 emails from the DNC.

 Three days after the emails leaked, the FBI confirmed their open investigation.

 In late July 2016, the DNC announced that their computer network had indeed been hacked and that multiple people’s emails were stolen.

 Later on, the account that sent the emails to WikiLeaks was identified by US intelligence as an online character that Russian military intelligence was using.

 In September of that year, Trump gave an interview with Larry King that was shown on Russia Today.

 King asked him about his thoughts on whether or not Russia hacked the emails to interfere with the election; Trump replied, “I think it’s probably unlikely.

 Maybe the Democrats are putting that out, who knows…

 If they are doing something, I hope that somebody’s going to be able to find out so they can end it.

 Because that would not be appropriate at all.” He also went on to say that he hoped the election would be fair and without any tampering.

 The investigation continues, and very recently, 12 Russian officers were charged with plotting to intervene with the 2016 presidential election.

 5.

 Obama: American Made

 In February 2012, Barack Obama visited the Master Lock facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 The company had recently begun hiring more employees for its Milwaukee plant instead of the cheaper labor they had been looking for in China and Mexico about ten years prior.

 Obama stated that Master Locks was “...making the most of a huge opportunity that exists right now to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the United States of America.” He began talking about the job loss America had faced and eventually said, “For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.

 That’s good for the companies, but it’s also good up and down the supply chain.” However, contradictory to Obama’s statement, the United States underwent an extended period of manufacturing increase throughout the 1990s while Bill Clinton was in office.

 This growth peaked in 1997.

 Wisconsin’s reported period of growth was from 1991 to 1999; there were about 80,000 manufacturing jobs added within that time.

 When the White House was contacted after the Milwaukee speech, they claimed that these statistics were already known and that Obama had deviated from the speech text.

 The false statement was repeated two days later in Everett, Washington at a Boeing plant.

 4.

 Trump: Energy

 In August 2017, Donald Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, during which he spoke about many topics, including border control, particular senators, and the media.

 He also talked about an infrastructure bill and in what ways it would improve the country.

 Trump stated, “We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways...Our greatest creations… are just waiting to be brought to life.

 American hands will build this future.

 American energy will power this future.

 We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.” The claim that the US had just become an energy exporter is false even though it can be interpreted in several different ways.

 If he meant that the US had just started exporting energy in general, then there is plenty of evidence proving him incorrect.

 If Trump was implying that the US had just become a net energy exporter, then he is still wrong because United States imports still outweigh its exports.

 If he was simply referring to crude oil, then Trump’s claim is false because it wouldn’t qualify as the “first time ever.” The best option would be if he were talking about natural gas exports; however, when he made his speech, the United States hadn’t yet become a net exporter of natural gas as the 2017 numbers hadn’t been worked up.

 3.

 Obama: Middle Class

 During a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2007, Obama gave a speech opposing the way Republicans try to help the economy.

 He stated, “...they continue to subscribe to a top-down approach to economic growth...and we believe that the economy works better when it works for everybody and that real growth happens from the bottom up.” Obama went on to say it’s even more upsetting that “Their willingness to say no to everything - the fact that since 2007, they have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would help the middle class just gives you a sense of how opposed they are to any progress.” What makes this statement false is the number of legislative pieces he mentioned; even when taking the judicial and executive branches into account, there were only 133 filibusters total.

 Concerning legislation, there were only 50 bills blocked by the Senate Republicans.

 2.

 Trump: Calling Families In October 2017, during a news conference, President Trump was asked why nobody had heard anything from him about the four United States soldiers that lost their lives in Niger that same month.

 He stated that he had written letters to the soldier’s families that had either been sent out or would be going out that night.

 He also said, “I will, at some point during the period of time, call the parents and the families because I have done that traditionally...the toughest calls I have to make are the calls where this happens.”

 Trump then claimed, “So the traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls.” However, this statement is false.

 Obama met with numerous families during his presidency.

 1.

 Obama: Healthcare Reform One of Barack Obama’s biggest concerns during his presidency was the reformation of United States healthcare.

 Back in 2009, during a speech he gave to the American Medical Association, he stated, “No matter how we reform healthcare, I intend to keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan.” However, with the change in healthcare requirements that accompanied the Affordable Care Act, keeping this promise proved impossible.

 In 2013, NBC News reported that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million people who had personally-purchased health insurance would receive notices of cancellation over the course of the 2014 year.

 That same year, CBS News reported that over two million people would lose their plans when Obamacare went into effect.

 Undocumented workers were unable to get healthcare through the ACA site, and premiums for insurance outside the website became unaffordable.

 The people who were unable to purchase healthcare due to low-income were supposed to be able to enroll in Medicaid; however, not every state was required to adopt Medicaid due to a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that made it a state-governed choice.

 In a poll done by the Commonwealth Fund, people ages 19 to 64 were asked why they didn’t procure a private healthcare plan or Medicaid after checking out the online marketplace.

 86 percent of people were unable to afford it, 54 percent of which said they made too much to qualify for the Obamacare tax credits and premiums were too expensive without any monetary assistance.

 What do you believe is the most profound lie either of these presidents told?