re: #42 lawhawk

He was NEVER good at lying.

He lied, and then lied more to cover for the initial lie, and people gave up fact-checking because Trump just overwhelms the senses with nonstop lies.

from yesterday’s electoral-vote.com, four good possible explanations

…seems like Trump is getting sloppier and sloppier about lying, about conflicts of interest, and about bad optics…. and at least a dozen other impolitic moves in the last month or two that we likely would not have seen two years ago (even though the administration has always operated under relatively low standards for such things). Maybe Trump has gotten complacent, since he’s gotten away with so much for so long. Or maybe he’s tired, or is otherwise in decline, and is investing even less effort in playing politics. Or maybe life in the bubble has left him further disconnected from reality than he already was

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