On the Senate floor, neglect of the truth is on garish display during Trump's impeachment trial

The truth about Trump’s lies
His attitude toward the truth has had a devastating impact on Americans’ ability to discern fact from fiction.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/26/opinion/truth-about-trumps-lies/

Sean Spicer was the tell.

Three years ago this month, that flustered little man in his ill-fitting jacket didn’t just bark at White House reporters, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period,” even though numerous photos of President Trump’s comparatively sparse swearing-in showed no such thing. Spicer’s first comments as press secretary also put us on notice: This would be a presidency immune to facts.

During his tenure, Trump has “made more than 16,200 false or misleading claims,” according to The Washington Post, which has undertaken the noble (some would say insane) task of fact-checking the president’s epic mendacity. In 2019 alone, Trump reportedly uttered more than 22 lies a day.

Trump doesn’t just have a problem with the truth. He regards it with open contempt. And that has certainly had a devastating impact on Americans’ ability to discern fact from fiction.

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On the Senate floor, neglect of the truth is on garish display during Trump’s impeachment trial. With the mountains of evidence presented by House impeachment managers, the impeached president’s guilt is a foregone conclusion. Yet so is this: Republicans will probably ignore every truth presented about Trump’s attempts to coerce a foreign government to interfere with the 2020 elections.

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Republicans aren’t interested in the truth, and a majority of Americans can no longer easily recognize it when presented with it. Trump is altering, perhaps irreparably, our understanding of facts and truth as he reshapes the White House — the People’s House — into a house of lies.