"There was a time, earlier in Trump’s political career, when pundits liked to issue chin-scratching missives about the mutability of truth: about how Trump could spin outright fabrications into vehicles for white or male grievance, and about how shockingly little it mattered when his stories were revealed to be lies."

~ Moira Donegan

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/2

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio

The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears

^{Moira Donegan (The Guardian)}

"Now, the thoroughly Trumpified Republican party has all but dispensed with the pretext of honesty, instead embracing an avowed sense that the factual truth is actually irrelevant."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/3

"The New York Times is belatedly getting out of the 'unproven claims' safe space and calling Trump’s lies 'lies.'”

~ Mark Jacob quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/4

dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/18…

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Using a security breach for political purposes

Tom Nichols /The Atlantic: Trump Is No Gerald Ford No other president has used an assassination attempt to inflame American politics the way ...

^{Daily Kos}

"Debunking the underlying supposed factual basis for the claims, while important, doesn’t debunk the racism, the xenophobia, or the corrosive effects on American civic life. Those explicit racist messages – not dog whistles, not coded, not euphemized – come through loud and clear to all who are listening, from white nationalists on one extreme to Republican voters to immigrant communities now feeling isolated and under siege."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #JDVance #lies
/5

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

The More Desperate Trump Gets, The More Toxic His Rhetoric Becomes

INSIDE: JD Vance ... Kamala Harris ... Tom Cotton

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

In a new article at Mother Jones, Anna Merlin surveys who's behind the attack on disinformation and lies disseminated in the public square – and she points the finger squarely and rightly at Republicans.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/6

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

How anti-disinformation research came under fire

Academic and industry support has retreated amid a GOP assault.

^{Mother Jones}

"Russian government-linked efforts to interfere in the upcoming U.S. presidential election have increasingly shifted to target the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Microsoft reported in findings published Tuesday.

~ Maggie Miller

#Russia #disinformation #lies #KamalaHarris #Trump #ElectionInterference
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politico.com/news/2024/09/17/r…

"The new effort, which involves spreading fake videos discrediting Harris and her campaign, is the latest foreign interference linked to Russia in recent weeks, and shows a speedy pivot by foreign adversaries to targeting the Harris campaign after she replaced President Joe Biden on the ticket."

#Russia #disinformation #lies #KamalaHarris #Trump #ElectionInterference
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"Last night, JD Vance was asked by a reporter why he didn’t fact check claims from his constituents who were saying, allegedly, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats. Vance insisted it was the media’s responsibility to fact check the residents of Springfield, 'not lie about them.'”

~ William Kristol

#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/9

thebulwark.com/p/the-miles-dav…

The Miles Davis of Tax Policy

Trump’s just making it up on the fly.

^{William Kristol (The Bulwark)}

"This morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that Vance’s office did actually reach out to the Springfield city manager to see if there was any validity to the rumors about Haitian migrants. The staffer was told that it was all baseless. Vance, nevertheless, kept up his post on X about the rumors. And that night, Donald Trump went on the debate stage and just stated it as fact."

#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/10

"Today, The Wall Street Journal published a fantastic exposé about Springfield, Ohio, urban legends, and the power of lies, titled, 'How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren't True.' I want to give credit to a job well done."

~ Parker Molloy

#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/11

readtpa.com/p/the-wall-street-…

The Wall Street Journal Provides a Template for Covering the Right's Springfield Lies

Plus: Three other Springfield-specific reading recommendations

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

"Springfield’s Republican mayor said this to the WSJ [i.e., Wall Street Journal]:

'We have told those at the national level that they are speaking these things that are untrue,' added Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, a registered Republican. But he said claims have been 'repeated and doubled down on.'

Here’s my question: How is Rue going to vote in November?"

~ Jonathan V. Last

#JDVance #lies #disinformation #Springfield #Haitians #immigrants #media
/12

thebulwark.com/p/who-will-repu…

Who Will Republicans in Springfield, Ohio Vote For?

What happens when partisans find out that their presidential nominee is lying about them and hurting their community?

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}