The Trump/Vance Lie Machine

And Harris’s decency

Liza Donnelly
4 min readOct 1, 2024

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A few observations on a Monday.

An informal survey of lawn signage here in downeast Maine were I am for a few days: more Harris signs that Trump signs like 10 to 3. I was pleasantly surprised.

Trump’s hair is turning purple.

Trump called Harris “mentally disabled.” “She was born that way.” This is clear racism. The video of him saying this is chilling because he seems to revel in the audience’s hatred towards Harris emanating as he says this (and their joy in it).

In a rally in PA, Trump suggested that one way to eliminate crime is to have “one really violent day” and then that would deter others. “One rough hour — and I mean real rough,” Mr. Trump said. “The word will get out and it will end immediately.” That’s a police state.

Do you ever wonder how the lie-machine works in the Trump campaign? Do they just make stuff up out of whole cloth, or take pieces of truth an twist, enlarge them? Apparently, Trump said that Harris “let in” 13,000–14,000 immigrant murders in the last three years. The Department of Homeland security said those stats are from the last 40 years.

I tried to draw a lie machine but frankly got too depressed and really had no clue how to draw such a thing.

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