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Last week the popular narrative was “Barr wouldn’t abuse the truth of the Mueller report in his memo, b/c he’d know he’d be contradicted.”
Well, now that’s happened.
Perhaps we can finally acknowledge these people will lie brazenly and don’t fear getting caught at all.
Well, now that’s happened.
Perhaps we can finally acknowledge these people will lie brazenly and don’t fear getting caught at all.
They lie as a matter of strategy and as a matter of principal.
As a matter of strategy, because achieving a critical mass of lies suits them. They don’t need to be believed—they just need the truth to be disbelieved.
As a matter of principle, because they think lies are good.
As a matter of strategy, because achieving a critical mass of lies suits them. They don’t need to be believed—they just need the truth to be disbelieved.
As a matter of principle, because they think lies are good.
Barr’s professional career is built on the premise that powerful men are above the law, and that the most powerful man is utterly beyond it.
It’s journalistic malpractice to report a single word he says without including that context.
It’s journalistic malpractice to report a single word he says without including that context.
Trump lies even when the truth would help him more. His lies are large and small, Patty and immense, but they are all immediately detectable as cut-rate bullshit told by a venal clown.
By his observable public record, any word he says should be presumed false until proven true.
By his observable public record, any word he says should be presumed false until proven true.
*petty*
no disrespect to Patty.
no disrespect to Patty.
