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teach1st

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Sat Jun 23, 2018, 12:02 PM Jun 2018

WaPost Op-Ed: Trump is a baldfaced liar

Trump is a baldfaced liar
Washington 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 don’t 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 Post’s “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 didn’t 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 wouldn’t 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 OP
wow, he only had to tell about 10,000 lies before it occurred to the media that maybe he's a liar. unblock Jun 2018 #1
This is not a Washington Post Editorial; it's an Op-ed by columnist Colbert King. eom DonViejo Jun 2018 #2
Oops! You're correct teach1st Jun 2018 #3

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1. wow, he only had to tell about 10,000 lies before it occurred to the media that maybe he's a liar.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 12:06 PM
Jun 2018

remember, al gore got branded a liar based on someone else's lie about a single statement.

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