It's not that Trump is so trustworthy it's just that one person can't possibly lie as much as thousands.
---- "Here's the bottom line, we've got to keep our country safe," Trump said. "You look at what's happening. We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden! They took in large numbers, they're having problems like they never thought possible."
He continued, " You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris. We’ve allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country and there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing. So we’re going to keep our country safe." ----
0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21...
Most recent New Year's eve: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/749511/French-government...
There are constant serious incidents in Stockholm and Malmo, every Friday. There are constant serious incidents (like 10-20 cars torched minimum) in every major French city every Friday, including even Brussels on occasion, for over a decade now. There are serious incidents in Rotterdam and the poor parts of Amsterdam.
I'm not sure why this is not being reported, although in the French case it is pretty clear the government is suppressing reporting. But of course, after a decade of this few people are unaware. The problem is, everybody knows, and the suppression is causing people to assume things are worse than they are (although they are far beyond what even a San Franciscan would tolerate). The issue is people can just leave their homes, drive 1km further than usual and see proof positive (torched cars being cleaned up, destroyed businesses) that the government is suppressing news. And no, it (mostly) isn't immigrants doing this, although it definitely is muslim inner city youth.
The issue is simple: the governments are lying. Very, very transparently lying. For the fool's hope of turning an anti-immigrant wave back. Meanwhile, you can't actually say you feel like this in most settings. The issue with that is what happens at work. 90% or so of a consulting team working at some bank or whatever will be of the opinion that this needs to stop, and some percentage of them feels that electing Le Pen/Dewinter/Wilders/... will accomplish, maybe not a stop, but an improvement. And it absolutely can't be discussed, because that is sure to, at the very least, result in complaints to HR or management. Meanwhile 100m down the road, 15 floors down, things are slowly getting worse. Some days you can't get a sandwich without getting confronted with it.
Will this get us Le Pen ? God I hope not.
This is the Kuleshov effect of speeches.
Interestingly enough the media parroted the "debunked" claim when the article was using statistics from Sweden's own government. Rape is up 70% since 2005.
Grenade attacks are also a thing in Sweden now, which is absolutely unacceptable.
As a matter of fact, Trump built his political career on lying about Obama's place of birth.
See:
https://www.thestar.com/news/donald-trump-fact-check.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/don...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-false-statem...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/politics/donald-trump-o...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/...
Trump Lies about His Birther Past: A Closer Look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBhANSz--k "Trump built his career on a racist lie because he's a racist and a liar" -- Seth Meyers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
There was one grenade launched in Sweden in August last year. There's at least 1 killed by a semi auto in the US per day. Sweden has near zero homicide rate.
edit: it seems there was more than 'one' explosions in Sweden, but looking at the wikipedia article history linked below doesn't fill me with confidence considering how the language used has changed between august when the article was made and now. Also note how the wikipedia editors write about organized crime using old grenades from WWII and not migrants bombing Swedish people.
> I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh …”
>“I don’t know,” Trump repeated. “I was given that information.”