>> In terms of what Donald Trump actually
said last night, normally what we would do
in a situation like this is we'd go through
all of the fact checks and everything. But,
one, I just don't have it in me right now.
Two, I don't know that it actually matters.
And, three, Daniel Dale on CNN pretty much
did the job for us. So here's just a little
portion of his rapid fire fact checking of
Donald Trump's speech last night.
>> He said he will always, and Republicans
will always, strongly protect people with
pre-existing conditions. That pledge has already
been broken.
He and they have repeatedly tried to weaken
those protections in Obamacare. He claimed,
again, that he banned travel from China and
Europe. No, he imposed partial restrictions
with many exemptions. Tens of thousands of
people continued traveling over. He boasted
about the COVID testing system and about his
general response.
Look, experts near universally say the US
was fatally slow in its response, especially
slow in setting up adequate testing. He said
that he ended what he called a NAFTA nightmare
and he signed a brand-new US-Mexico-Canada
Agreement, the USMCA. That agreement preserves,
maintains, most of NAFTA. He boasted about
building about 300 miles of border wall.
What he didn't say is that most of that is
a replacement barrier. As of August 7th, according
to official data, just five miles had been
built where none existed before. He suggested
that Joe Biden would confiscate guns, that's
baseless. Biden is running on a non-mandatory
buyback of so-called assault weapons.
He said Democrats want to defund the police.
Biden, again, doesn't, has rejected that.
He denounced Biden for voting for the Iraq
war. Biden did, indeed, vote for the Iraq
war. But what Trump doesn't mention is that
he also supported that invasion. He said Democrats
twice removed the word God from the Pledge
of Allegiance at their convention.
Two individual caucus meetings outside the
main prime time programming did leave it out,
but it was uttered in every prime time event.
Trump denounced so-called cancel culture as
like an insidious left wing thing. He, Donald
J Trump, has tried to get dozens of people
and entities canceled, fired, boycotted, including,
literally last week, Goodyear.
>> Yeah, and I mean that was less than half
of the thing that he went through. And it's
obviously all true, and it's just so much
that you just have to let it wash over you.
Take a sip from your drink, Anderson Cooper
style, and realize that, for the audience
that that speech was for, they don't care
about any of it.
>> So the takeaways from the convention are
these. One, lower ratings than the DNC. For
all Trump's bragging about how great his ratings
were, not as many people watched it, so he
failed at that. Two, the lying. So Daniel
Dale does an amazing job-
>> Yeah.
>> Of doing something for literally three
minutes at the end, he just went for like
a minute and a half straight, cuz it was non-stop.
And, three, it's incoherent. None of the attacks
work together. That's something that's being
overlooked. They say that America's safer
under Donald Trump, but that it's less safe
under Donald Trump. And every argument that
they're making doesn't make any sense. They're
saying that the Democrats wanna let everyone
out of jail, but Donald Trump proudly did
prison reform which let everyone out of jail.
>> Yeah.
>> Which is it? It doesn't make any sense,
and it is our job to call them out for that.
And it is your job as a voter to not let him
get away with it.
>> What I don't, you're 100% right, and virtually
every topic you could point to, that's sort
of what's going on, is that they want to have
it both ways.
And I know Emma made a great point about this,
about criminal justice reform and Joe Biden,
last night on the coverage. Where you could
totally attack both Biden and Kamala Harris
for having a history of the sorts of actions
that would make the people who are protesting
in the streets really hesitant to get behind
them.
And question whether they would actually do
anything, if they got into office. The issue
is that Donald Trump doesn't actually want
to connect all those dots. Because he doesn't
want to seem supportive of the protest movements,
because he's not. So he'll point out some
of the things that they did, while simultaneously
saying but they do actually support the protest
movement and they'll defund the police and
all of that.
But you shouldn't vote for him, because he
voted for the crime bill. It's just so confusing.
And in a more meta-sense, that whole convention
was the pandemic's gone, we don't have to
think about it. And look at the great job
growth, ignoring, of course, that we still
haven't recovered a third of the jobs that
were lost during the pandemic.
So it's ignoring huge portions of what's going
on. And then hyper-focusing on one portion
of what's going on, which are the protests
and all of that. But saying it doesn't matter
that it's me who's president right now, somehow
that's Biden's fault.
>> Yeah.
>> And I know that a lot of people right now
who do polling and all that, they're like,
this is potentially a great line of attack
for Donald Trump.
I guess, but how does it make any sense? He's
president and this is happening, and it's
been happening for months and months. It's
a crisis that, like many other crises of his
presidency, he has done nothing to improve
and, in fact, has made the situation far worse
in real time.
>> So, yes, is the short answer to what you
said. However, messaging, Dems suck. And messaging,
Trump's a marketer. And so, the policy doesn't
play as it's being presented by Democrats.
They're just not doing it. And an argument
that you made for, and what it would take
to make that argument against Trump, or against
Biden and Harris as you suggest they could
potentially do.
Is much more complicated than saying Joe Biden
is a radical left wacko, and they just wanna
say that and say that and say that. And one
thing that's been reinforced, as the media
landscape has changed, as Republicans have
solidified their hold on their base through
Fox and massive orchestrated social media
campaigns.
And funded right wing extremist blogospheres,
for lack of a better term, they can say things
until they're true. And the way that it's
filtered as a default setting for mainstream
media is to present that argument at least
as half of the two arguments, even though
they're wildly untrue and utterly incoherent.
And then what the Democrats need to do is
find a way to message as concisely and effectively
as Trump. Luckily, all the facts are on their
side. Trump is unresponsive and doesn't take
responsibility. He did not respond, and 180,000
people are dead. That is 90,000 ebolas, that
is 45,000 Benghazis, 45,000 Benghazis.
Along the way, he was late on masks. He said
we're doing too much testing. Those are things
to cover up for him. But worse, let's look
at his record. Let's look at Dr. Donald's
medical record. His medical record is not
just that, but it's disinfectant, it's ultraviolet
light under your skin.
It's, we really need to amplify the voice
of the demon semen doctor.
>> Yeah.
>> He is terrible at all of this, and what
evidence can I point to? 180,000 people, Americans,
are dead, and did this happen everywhere else
in the world? No, this just happened here.
You look at the EU, per capita, it's like
an eighth the infections that we have.
It's way fewer deaths. He failed. And if he
was in charge of Team America on an episode
of The Apprentice, Donald Trump would be absolutely
fired.
>> Yeah, 100%.
>> So let's do that, we gotta fire him.
>> Yeah, and then they need to do the right
messaging, if we're gonna get to that.
