For the record — Donald Trump did not “allegedly” say that Mexicans were rapists, women were dogs, his political opponents were vermin and immigrants were poisoning the blood of our country.
He didn’t allegedly mock a disabled reporter, demean a POW or attack a Gold Star family. He didn’t allegedly brag about grabbing women by the pussy, didn’t allegedly sexually abuse and defame E. Jean Carroll, or cheat on his wife with a porn star and a playmate.
He didn’t allegedly ask Brad Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 votes, didn’t allegedly tell the Jan 6th crowd to march to the Capitol or agree that the mob was right to want to hang his VP, and he didn’t allegedly wait 3 hours and 7 minutes before stopping the attack.
He didn’t allegedly remove highly classified national security documents from the White House, didn’t allegedly show them to people who had no right to see them, and he didn’t allegedly keep them in his motherfucking bathroom.
He didn’t allegedly make millions in foreign money while president, didn’t allegedly get his daughter dozens of Chinese patents and didn’t allegedly commit decades worth of egregious business fraud in the state of NY.
He actually DID all of those things, while alleging to be a devout family man patriot, while alleging to put America first, while alleging the 2020 election was “stolen” from him and alleging that he is being indicted for the many, many crimes he committed “for you.”
No matter what Trump says, no matter how the media frames & spins the truth, no matter what the angriest, loudest voices want you to believe.
There are the things Trump did, and the things Trump alleges.
We have eyes and ears.
We have facts and we have lies.
And we can never, ever lose sight of the difference between the two.
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell, 1984