As President Trump barnstorms the country, going from rally to rally to bolster votes for Republican candidates, his rhetoric has turned increasingly darker.
We’ve documented before that at least 70 percent of the factual claims he makes at his rallies are false or misleading. Many of those claims — biggest tax cut ever passed, the border wall is being built — still are “greatest hits” lines at his rallies. He continues to frequently portray himself as a super-action hero, slashing regulations, creating jobs, even saving money on embassy construction.
But as the election — and Halloween — approaches, he has tossed in a witches’ brew of attacks on Democrats that are over-the-top even by his standards. The language changes from rally to rally, but the themes are the same. One can almost imagine him thinking, “I’ll toss in a little Venezuelan socialism here, a bit of MS-13 there” — as he mixes his latest batch of invective.
View the complete October 24 article by Glenn Kessler on the Washington Post website here.