Trump's tenuous ties to truth

Now PlayingMemorable...(CNN)President Donald Trump has a very casual relationship with the truth. To him, facts are fungible. They are things to stretch, pull and sometimes break -- all in service of the story that he tells himself about his life.

In his first 466 days in office, Trump said more than 3,000 things that were either partially or entirely untrue, according to a count kept by the amazing Fact Checker blog at The Washington Post. That's 6.5 a day!

Trump's penchant for prevarication is, at some level, an accepted piece of his presidency at this point. It's a feature, not a glitch. For most people -- both those who support Trump and who vehemently oppose him -- his exaggerations, mistruths and, in many cases, outright lies are baked in.

But there's one place where Trump's lack of candor and honesty is a major liability: in a legal deposition where lying carries criminal penalties.    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/donald-trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia-sit-down-interview/












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Donald Trump Creates His Own Reality, Leaves Truth and Reason Behind

The appeal of Herr Donald Trump as a political candidate has always escaped me.  Born with a racist speech defaming Mexicans, nurtured in demagoguery, now the candidate has turned to outright lies and calumny, so arrogant his lying knows no limits, now even mocking a disabled reporter, and also wants to spite our Constitution by registering Muslim citizens of our United States.

[“When your defense is you didn’t tweet it, you retweeted it, you’re beyond doubling down, now you’re quadrupling down,” Meyers said. “But if you’re waiting for Trump to apologize for anything he’s said, don’t hold your breath.” Despite his world-class memory, Trump has claimed he can’t remember that last time he apologized for something he said. ] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/25/seth-meyers-calls-trump-s-9-11-claims-what-they-are-lies.html



[In his Thursday statement, Trump said he had not been aware of the journalist’s disability and “merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago”.

Kovaleski told the Washington Post: “The sad part about it is, it didn’t in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record.”

A spokesperson for the New York Times told Politico: “We think it’s outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters.”]
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/26/donald-trump-mock-new-york-times-reporter-disability

Mr. Trump, register me because I am a Muslim sympathizer.  Also, come mock my disability to my face, and I will punch you right in the balls, you prick