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WaPost Op-Ed: Trump is a baldfaced liar
Trump is a baldfaced liarWashington Post, 6/22/18, Colbert I. King
In all my years, I have never seen anything quite like this: a U.S. president who lies and demonizes at the drop of a hat. I dont just mean President Trump makes statements that tend to be inaccurate or misleading or that he exaggerates, equivocates and, at times, shades the truth.
No, this president repeatedly makes declarations that are flat-out at variance with established facts; assertions that on their face cannot be true.
As The Posts Fact Checker column noted this week, until Wednesday, when Trump signed an executive order ending the separation of migrant families at the Mexican border, his administration was insisting that it didnt have a policy of separating families (false), that several laws and court rulings were forcing these separations (false), that Democrats were to blame (false), that only Congress could stop family separations (false) and that an executive order wouldnt get the job done.
No other words for it: Trump is a baldfaced liar.
No, this president repeatedly makes declarations that are flat-out at variance with established facts; assertions that on their face cannot be true.
As The Posts Fact Checker column noted this week, until Wednesday, when Trump signed an executive order ending the separation of migrant families at the Mexican border, his administration was insisting that it didnt have a policy of separating families (false), that several laws and court rulings were forcing these separations (false), that Democrats were to blame (false), that only Congress could stop family separations (false) and that an executive order wouldnt get the job done.
No other words for it: Trump is a baldfaced liar.
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WaPost Op-Ed: Trump is a baldfaced liar (Original Post)
teach1st
Jun 2018
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wow, he only had to tell about 10,000 lies before it occurred to the media that maybe he's a liar.
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Jun 2018
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(52,328 posts)1. wow, he only had to tell about 10,000 lies before it occurred to the media that maybe he's a liar.
remember, al gore got branded a liar based on someone else's lie about a single statement.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. This is not a Washington Post Editorial; it's an Op-ed by columnist Colbert King. eom
teach1st
(5,935 posts)3. Oops! You're correct
Thanks! I corrected it.