The Lyin' in Winter

[tgards79]

BTRTN on the huge and very important distinction between lying about facts and lying about acts:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/02/the-lyin-in-winter.html

[malaise]

1. Nice

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[tgards79]

2. Thanks!

[reggieandlee]

3. This actually has an interesting new point to make about Trump's lying

Give this a read. The premise is that during the election season, Trump was "lying about facts," and he won because no one really cared whether his facts were right or wrong. But now he is "lying about acts" -- and the author details how past presidents have been battered by lying about the actions taken under their watch. Excerpt:


"If Trump takes the position that he knew nothing of this coordination, and he is proven to be untruthful, he is no longer lying about facts like the size of his Electoral College win or his, uh, hands. He would be lying about an action. He would be lying about whether he participated in collusion to subvert the electoral democracy in the United States of America. Something tells me that this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they cooked up the phrase 'high crimes and misdemeanors.'”