From Jon Perr at PERRspectives:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has lied about almost everything in this election. But among his most insidious falsehoods is this. Hillary Clinton, Trump declared in Florida two weeks ago, “is going to cut your Social Security and your Medicare.” As he put it a rally in Pennsylvania last month:
She wants to knock the hell out of your Social Security. She wants to knock the hell out of your Medicare and Medicaid. And I am going to save them.
Now, there are two big problems with The Donald’s deception. For starters, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic platform alike have both insisted on no benefit cuts to Medicare and Social Security. In fact, in their final debate Trump called Clinton “such a nasty woman” after she explained “My Social Security payroll contribution will go up as will Donald’s, assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it.” But just as embarrassing to Trump is the actual truth that his Republican Party has demanded reductions to both programs for tens of millions of American seniors.