Sunday, October 04, 2020

The consequences of over 20,000 fabrications, falsehoods, fibs, inventions, lies, misrepresentations, prevarications, tall stories, and whoppers made by Covid-45

On 13 July, 2020, Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, and Meg Kelly of The Washington Post reported that, "as of July 9," President Donald Trump had made "20,055 [false or misleading] claims in 1,267 days." Their tally doesn't include claims made by members of Trump's staff or any of his surrogates. Given this record of fabrications, falsehoods, fibs, inventions, lies, misrepresentations, prevarications, tall stories, and whoppers (along with all of Trump's Big Macs), it is no surprise, even before the inconsistencies at Trump's doctor's press conferences, that so many people immediately began wondering whether it was even true that he had tested positive. A steady record of lying, it seems, has consequences. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 4 October)

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