![]() Trump and the new generation of fake news on steroids? York Times, CNN, MSNBC and others begat the baldface lying of Drudge, Fox, Is it any wonder then, that ‘secret’ lying by Reagan, Clinton, Obama, The New Mountains of lies inviteīeing tunneled into and mined, and mining tools are getting better all the time. Nixon was impeached for lying about the Watergate cover-up.Ĭlinton was impeached for dallying with an intern. Profoundly secretive, arrogating to his office a false claim of constitutionalĪuthority, that, while it cost him his job, was kept around for his successors to use,Ī slippery slope. Secrets, as did Truman and Eisenhower when the wars grew cold. Presidency, but let’s just retrace to Franklin Roosevelt who, besidesĬoncealing his infidelities, of necessity had to dissemble about wartime We could go back and find examples from the very first This trait is not new in US presidents, merely lessĬoncealed in our era by the RealPolitik that kept it more discrete before. Telling the same lie again is “ profoundly transactional.”
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