Trump divines his own truth without consequences, denies words from his own mouth w/o consequence

[Demovictory9]

Before Trump, the idea of having a President who habitually fails to tell the truth and survives would have been unthinkable. But it's becoming clear that Trump's tenure is not just a lesson in fractured presidential convention. It amounts to a unique challenge to the office of the presidency itself, to the institutions that underpin American democracy and the long-held idea that government can only function effectively if it has the trust of the governed.

The most shocking aspect of the President's latest flurry of untruths in recent days relating to events before the 2016 election is that they were not at all shocking to a nation numbed by his barrage of easily disprovable claims and statements.

Revelations that Trump dictated a doctor's report on his health before voters went to the polls and his ever-shifting story on a hush payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels might have been a debilitating blow to any normal politician.


In Trump's case, they were simply more of the same flurry of daily controversies that characterize his presidency. While his critics reacted with outrage, his supporters saw media fact checks as just more "fake news."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-presidency/index.html

Trump, who according to The Washington Post Fact Check has so far lied more than 3,000 times as President, is possibly proving that peddling untruths on an industrial scale is how to avoid a blowback.

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When the reporter pointed out that Trump had said "no" when she asked him whether he knew about the payment, Trump replied: "Excuse me, you got take a look at what we said."

It was a typically unreal moment in a presidency that has often shattered norms of logic and convention -- here was Trump openly denying words that had come out of his own mouth.