President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign’s final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty. Trump attends a rally for Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale in Belgrade, Mont., on Saturday. [President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days]Trump’s supporters say they don’t much care about the falsehood meter. At his rally Wednesday in Estero, Fla., one Trump fan after another explained away the president’s disregard for the truth. “This election is a choice between Republican results and radical resistance,” Trump told a rally crowd Thursday in Columbia, Mo.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2018 23:35 UTC