Trump top 10 (or so)
22nd May 2018
Scott Johnson at Power Line talks Trump.
I am not comfortable with the frequent effusions of “weird and outrageous things” (I’m quoting Victor Davis Hanson) that President Trump says. His words go well outside the box of conventional presidential behavior. It is a quality that probably eased his transition from business to politics. For more on the implicit question of character, I yield to Charles Kesler’s invaluable essay “Thinking about Trump.” For a man who seems habitually untruthful, one of his striking accomplishments in year two is the fulfillment of campaign promises.
THAT’S THE POINT. Those who talk about Trump as ‘habitually untruthful’ not only hold him to a standard that they do not use (at least in the same conversation) for other politicians, but do not allow that Trump’s exaggeration and hyperbole are deliberate tools in his Persuasion Toolbox, to reference Scott Adams.
Nobody can point to a single instance where Trump has lied on a matter of substance in his capacity as President. (Oh, the talking heads on TV make claims, but if you look behind those claims it’s all hot air.)
Nobody makes as much fuss over Chuck Schumer’s lies, or Nancy Pelosi’s lies, or Maxine Waters’ lies, or John McCain’s lies, or Barack Obama’s lies (if you like your plan, you can keep your plan), or any of the carpet of lies that professional politicians lay down on their way to their offices every day.