THE INTERPRETER: Trail of Broken Promises: Donald Trump's Lengthening List of Empty Lies and Idle Boasts | He was going to investigate voter fraud, end crime in Chicago and crush ISIS. Oh yeah—there was also health care : The pattern Donald Trump follows 1.Assert something untrue based on a canard oozing from the right-wing fever swamps that you heard repeated on some Fox News show or other. 2. Spit out a half-formed solution that you seem not to have thought about or have given no thought to until just that moment. 3. Try to implement policy based on this idea, only to see it get slapped down by courts, legislators and objective reality.