Everyone knows that the President of the United States lies. But how can he continue doing so! This is a puzzle to most Europeans I would imagine. Do we want politicians who are trustworthy? Does it matter? Should, Every Daywe teach this is schools? Is this fake news, biased news, alternative facts? Who benefits and does it matter? Can anyone explain why this seems to be the new norm?
Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
Read this article from the New York Times By DAVID LEONHARDT and STUART A. THOMPSON JUNE 23, 2017
President Trump’s political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama’s birthplace). His lack of truthfulness has also become central to the Russia investigation, with James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., testifying under oath about Trump’s “lies, plain and simple.”
There is simply no precedent for an American president to spend so much time telling untruths. Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers. No other president — of either party — has behaved as Trump is behaving. He is trying to create an atmosphere in which reality is irrelevant.
We have set a conservative standard here, leaving out many dubious statements (like the claim that his travel ban is “similar” to Obama administration policy). Some people may still take issue with this standard, arguing that the president wasn’t speaking literally. But we believe his long pattern of using untruths to serve his purposes, as a businessman and politician, means that his statements are not simply careless errors.
We are using the word “lie” deliberately. Not every falsehood is deliberate on Trump’s part. But it would be the height of naïveté to imagine he is merely making honest mistakes. He is lying.
Trump Told Public Lies or Faleverydayor His First 40 days, read full article here.
Well lieing is an art-form in the political arena and the biggest lies seem to be easier for the public to swallow, especially if the Media Barons, those who reside and work in the dark, and of course the Lobbying groups are in on it.
Examples , “Twin Towers” Two World Wars” “Two Gulf Wars” ” “all Israeli utterances” and of course “The Media as a whole” for the lies are in what they avoid or don’t cover .
With this Trump character, it’s just that he is making a mockery of the whole political process in the eyes of the public and the political professionals don’t like this lieing art-form being seen for what it is.
So what can we do? absolutely nothing, because politics and the political system has become the problem and our capitalist Democracies are run for and by those very same capitalist’s who sold us so many lies that have and are causing so much suffering around the world, not to mention the deaths of a million men women and children.