In June, Politifact chronicled Trump's top 10 lies of the year. Not surprisingly, many were about immigration: "The number of illegal immigrants in the United States is '30 million, it could be 34 million;'" "The Mexican government forces many bad people into our country;" and ,"There is 'no system to vet' refugees from the Middle East." Some other Trump falsehoods: "We're the highest taxed nation in the world" and "The unemployment rate may be as high as '42 percent.'"
Quoted in The Huffington Post, historian Douglas Brinkley observed: "In American history, we've never had a major presidential candidate who fabricated facts with the regularity of Donald Trump. He just simply makes up things."
Commenting on Trump's astounding mendacity, the mainstream media has attempted to be "evenhanded" with absurd complaints about the Clinton Foundation.
Charity Watch gave the Clinton Foundation an "A"rating; in 2014 the foundation raised $325 million and gave away 88 percent. The 2015 annual report of the Clinton Foundation Health Initiative indicates it, "helped more than 11.8 million people in more than 70 nations gain access to low-cost HIV medicines (saving the global health system billions of dollars) [and] has distributed vaccines that annually helped save 138,000 lives."
There is no credible evidence that Secretary of State Clinton gave favors to Clinton Foundation donors. No criminal complaints have ever been filed.
What the mainstream media does not discuss is the fact that the Clintons are philanthropists and Trump is not. When Hillary Clinton released eight years of tax returns it showed the Clintons had donated $15 million to charity -- roughly 10 percent of their income. Of course, we do not know how much Donald Trump donated because he has refused to release his tax returns; however The Washington Post found that, given his wealth, Trump gives very little money to charity.
It's absurd to compared Trump's astonishing capacity to lie with the Clintons' support for their foundation.
Donald Trump is a monstrous individual -- Godzilla. Hillary Clinton is a mainstream politician -- Bambi. They are not equivalent. To suggest they are equivalent brings discredit to the US media and distorts public perception in the presidential election.
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