You remember that famous joke?
Nixon memorably said that Americans need to know their president isn't a crook. These days, millions of people don't seem to care.
Dishonesty Has Defined the Trump Presidency. The Consequences Could Be Lasting.
By Peter Baker
Mr. Trump has spent four years telling Americans not to trust anyone other than him, whether it be public health experts, scientists, journalists, judges, career government officials, investigators, generals, intelligence agencies, election officials and even mail carriers. “Just remember,” he told a crowd one summer, “what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening.”
Dishonesty has been a defining hallmark of the Trump presidency. The sheer volume of untruths, both petty and profound, has been cataloged and quantified time and again, the subject of a shelf full of books and endless hand-wringing over the “post-truth” world. This is a president who casually accused a television anchor of murder, who spread the claim that Osama bin Laden is not actually dead and that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 killed, who literally took a Sharpie to a map to create his own fake weather forecast and reprimanded meteorologists who dared to correct him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/u...ishonesty.html
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w/78992777.cms
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