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Trump’s biggest lie: “Promises made, promises kept.”
The Trump administration has been an unqualified failure, but yet people still somehow defend it
To give Trump credit, he is extremely good at one thing: lying. He lies with such facility that it is breathtaking. As soon as I say something that approaches an untruth, my conscience attacks me. Trump obviously has no such compunction.
Just today, responding to Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic quoting Trump as calling American war heroes “losers” and “suckers,” Trump claimed that he had never called former U.S. Senator and war hero John McCain a “loser.” Unfortunately for Trump, there is video.
Never was the reality distortion engineered by Trump and his cronies on greater display than at the recent Republican National Convention. According to Mike Pence, for example, Trump handled the coronavirus crisis splendidly. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who famously began her tenure as White House press secretary by pledging “I will never lie to you,” claimed that…
