Donald Trump just got caught in the act
Mark Twain is believed to have said, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” In other words, striving for honesty isn’t just the moral path but the easier one. Lies inevitably beget more lies, and the deceit leads to inconsistencies that demand explanation. However, Donald Trump doesn’t care about all that because his perception of reality is so warped that he is committed to bending the truth to it regardless of the consequences.
Ironically, after long deriding real stories as “fake news,” Trump and his team are now crafting articles that not only parade as legitimate news but even appear to come from reputable sources. As the New Republic details, Trump has posted at least two flattering articles that appear to have been published in Newsweek. The problem is, they have been rewritten through extreme pro-Trump cherry-picking, then served up as the gospel.
In another affront to truth, Trump is now shining the spotlight on his recent escalating problem of confusing the names of politicians. Most notably, Trump has mixed up Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and suggested Barack Obama was still in office. The Liar-in-Chief is now declaring it was all strategic and intentional. At a recent South Carolina rally, Trump explained away the Pelosi-Haley confusion by saying, “I purposely interposed names,” and his implying that Obama was still in office was supposedly sarcasm, according to a report from Reuters.
Indeed, Trump is adding new tools and sharpening old ones in his arsenal as he ramps up his epic battle against truth in the final months of his presidential campaign. Lies and deception is all Trump has ever known, and as the level of legal hot water surrounding Trump continues to rise, he is pulling out all the stops. The more Trump bends over backwards to divorce himself from reality, the greater his desperation.
Ron Leshnower is a lawyer and the author of several books, including President Trump’s Month