C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
âTrump has made false or misleading claims more than 2,000 times in the past year, by The Washington Postâs tally. And you could count his genuine apologies on one hand: Just make a circle with your thumb and fingers.
The news is so full of his lies and contradictions â to say nothing about harmful policies â that claims that he paid a pornographic film actress to keep quiet about an affair have scarcely kept the nationâs attention.
And he is never so shameless as when he is denying the significance of reports of his campaignâs contacts with Russia. Mr. Trump admitted during his campaign that he hadnât felt the need to ask God for forgiveness. Itâs now undeniable that we live â and to some extent, have always lived â in a political world in which shame is optional.
Gone, even, is the idea that videotaped evidence of misbehavior is dispositive. People clinging to old myths about what the public would tolerate could have been forgiven for believing that if we all saw and heard a candidate essentially admitting to being a sexual predator, we would all agree that this was unacceptable. But no. He whispers that it wasnât even him on the âAccess Hollywoodâ tape. Suddenly, what was beyond debate is debatable.â
Opinion | The Political Mythbuster in Chief
Some might take solace in the fact that Trump failed to win the popular vote, that three million voters voted for someone other than Trump, that Trump remains extremely unpopular, and that he has accomplished little â if anything â of consequence his first year in office, but that doesnât address the issue of something having gone terribly wrong with the political process where the likes of Trump, a liar, misogynist, bigot, and racist, someone so devoid of character could indeed become president.
The news is so full of his lies and contradictions â to say nothing about harmful policies â that claims that he paid a pornographic film actress to keep quiet about an affair have scarcely kept the nationâs attention.
And he is never so shameless as when he is denying the significance of reports of his campaignâs contacts with Russia. Mr. Trump admitted during his campaign that he hadnât felt the need to ask God for forgiveness. Itâs now undeniable that we live â and to some extent, have always lived â in a political world in which shame is optional.
Gone, even, is the idea that videotaped evidence of misbehavior is dispositive. People clinging to old myths about what the public would tolerate could have been forgiven for believing that if we all saw and heard a candidate essentially admitting to being a sexual predator, we would all agree that this was unacceptable. But no. He whispers that it wasnât even him on the âAccess Hollywoodâ tape. Suddenly, what was beyond debate is debatable.â
Opinion | The Political Mythbuster in Chief
Some might take solace in the fact that Trump failed to win the popular vote, that three million voters voted for someone other than Trump, that Trump remains extremely unpopular, and that he has accomplished little â if anything â of consequence his first year in office, but that doesnât address the issue of something having gone terribly wrong with the political process where the likes of Trump, a liar, misogynist, bigot, and racist, someone so devoid of character could indeed become president.