“He’s someone who tells it like it is”
No, he says what people want to hear. “Mexico will pay for that wall” isnt telling it like it is. It is simplistic nonesense.
Are these quotes also “telling it like it is”
3/21/2004
10/1999
[then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi]
I thought he was strong and smart, and it looks like we have somebody that knows what he is doing finally in office, and he did inherit a tremendous problem. He really stepped into a mess,” 2/9/2009
Now certainly changing minds is ok, but on som many issues? including party affiliation?
and note the dates on these quotes. Granted some are dated but many are quite recent!