From Vox:
The most consistent theme of Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention
wasn’t that Joe Biden was a puppet for radicals. It wasn’t even that
rioters and looters are coming to your home and only Trump can protect
you from the radical left.
The clear theme of the RNC was a flagrant and brutal disregard for the truth.
The first night of the RNC featured more false and
misleading claims than all four nights of the DNC put together,
according to a CNN fact-check. The second night starred an anti-abortion activist whose tale about the horrors of Planned Parenthood had been exposed as a fraud more than 10 years ago. On the third night, Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the murder of a police officer by a far-right extremist
was a crime committed by left-wing rioters. It was all capped off by
President Trump’s Thursday night speech, a farrago of falsehoods that
even veteran Trump fact-checkers found stunning.
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