recent Trump speech 76% lies, President Trump is not your run-of-the-mill liar

[Demovictory9]

President Trump is not your run-of-the-mill liar

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In a speech Mr. Trump gave earlier this month in Montana, it was found by the Post that 76 percent of the claims made by the president were “false, misleading, or unsupported by evidence.”

Peter Wehner, who is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and who served in the Reagan, H.W. Bush and Bush administrations, appeared on the Newshour program. And while acknowledging that all presidents lie to some extent, Wehner said that, “We don’t have a run-of-the-mill liar in the White House, we have a pathological liar.” Seeming apoplectic, Wehner went on to say, “This is a man who lies on personal matters, on political matters, on domestic and international (matters) – he lies morning, noon and night. It’s just never-ending. We’ve never had a president who lies so pathologically.”

Wehner said this is especially troubling because of the number of people who believe our president’s lies, who accept them, who indeed believe Trump’s claim that the so-called “fake news” has it all wrong.

The senior fellow also said that the president’s lies have “tremendous damaging effects on the political and civic culture of a nation. ... A self-governing nation can’t run if you don’t have a common set of facts, if you can’t agree on common realities. We have a man in the White House who is engaged in, not just an assault on truth, but an effort to annihilate truth.”

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Also interviewed on the program was Laura Brown, who is the director of the Graduate School of Political Management, and who is also the author of several books on presidents. Brown said that, “One of the things that you see with this president is a desire to lie on everything.” “Trump’s lies,” she went on to say, “create confusion among the public,” and as a result, truth is not easily distinguished from falsity. And it is just this confusion that “allows his base to continue to support him and to believe his version of reality and not the news media’s actual version of reality.”

Roughly the same percentage of those who voted Trump into office constitute those who continue to support him, and likewise are those who have succumbed to Trump’s lying campaign, if we may call it that. And this segment of our society seems destined not to budge in terms of their support for our president, when the time comes for him to run for reelection.

But it is true also that Donald Trump will play a particularly outsize role when voters head to the polls come November, which is expected to be a referendum on the president as has not been seen in years.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/MyTurn-Langlais-Trump-Lies_-19164509

[Grassy Knoll]

1. Republican Party Is Dead...

Yeah!

[lunasun]

2. Scary as hell. Can't believe I still keep my Twilight Zone sig line below after all this time but

I continue to feel as though I have entered into the twilight zone although it was to be a dimension of imagination not a dystopian reality !

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[duforsure]

5. After seeing a psychiatrist interviewed on You Tube

On the David Pokeman Show , search Psychiatrists: Trump Mental Urgently Deteriorating, explains his mental condition very good. Sorry I can't link it to view. Its worth watching him explain it all, and fits him to a tee.

[Awsi Dooger]

6. Thanks

I posted this elsewhere