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Kevin Drum gives us a brief rundown of some of the things Donald Trump is lying about in his current stump speeches.

I continue to be curious as to how many of his supporters really believe all this stuff and how many are saying, in effect, "Yeah, yeah…we know he says a lot of shit that isn't true but we love the direction in which he's taking this country so we'll put up with it." I suppose there may also be a middle ground who believes it's just exaggeration and getting ahead of himself: "Yeah, he probably isn't really going to deliver a middle-class tax cut any day now but I just know he'll do it eventually, assuming those evil Democrats don't stop him!" (And we all know how much Democrats hate middle-class tax cuts..)

I doubt there's a way pollsters could separate out the various mindsets. If a pollster asks you about a guy you love, you don't admit to his flaws because you don't want to see his numbers go down even the slightest in any way. But I'd still like to know.