NY Times Editorial calls out Trump for getting ca

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NY Times Editorial calls out Trump for getting caught in his lies

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Trump, Trapped in His Lies, Keeps Lying. Sad!

He hasn’t taken office yet, but Donald Trump is lost, wandering in a labyrinth of lies and trying to drag the country in with him.

Witness his reaction to being called out on Sunday by Meryl Streep. Speaking at the Golden Globes, she said she had been stunned and heartbroken to see him mock a reporter with a physical disability.

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Just more lies upon lies. It all goes back to Mr. Trump’s baseless claim that he saw Muslims dancing in the streets by the thousands after the towers fell on 9/11.

Challenged over this, Mr. Trump seized on a 2001 article in The Washington Post, written by Mr. Kovaleski when he was a reporter there, that he said backed up his story.

But the article did not do that. It merely reported that the authorities had questioned “a number of people” who were “allegedly seen” celebrating the attack.

Nothing has ever come of that “allegedly” — there has never been any evidence to substantiate Mr. Trump’s claim, not then, not now. Mr. Kovaleski did not change his story — not “totally,” not at all. And he did not grovel.

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“Why is everything taken at face value?” she said. “You can’t give him the benefit of the doubt on this and he’s telling you what was in his heart? You always want to go by what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.”

Because yeah, that is self-evident and because it's a bedrock principle of journalism and of our criminal justice system used to determine facts, truth, guilt and innocence.

This is where things got really weird. Ms. Conway’s quote is a glimpse into the heart of darkness that a Trump presidency portends.

She wants us to swallow Mr. Trump’s reality without question. To accept only what he says now — not what he said then — over the evidence seen and heard by our own eyes and ears. She wants us overcome the dissonance by looking for the “truth” in his heart.

The truth is getting harder to see in the flickering gaslight of Mr. Trump’s America, but it’s there. Not “in his heart,” or out of his mouth, no matter how much this man and his minions say otherwise.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/...ook.com%2F

This is very heartening to see the NY Times call Trump's lies what they are: lies. Notice, too, the use of "gaslight" in the last paragraph. Interesting word choice given the OP I posted about gaslighting yesterday. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028449211


And it also turns out that while Trump was talking to the NY Times Sunday night when they contacted him about Meryl Streep's acceptance speech, he went on to lie some more--not about the incident with the disabled reporter--but about dress shops in DC being sold out of dresses for the inaugural. It's really a sign of a pathological liar to impulsively lie about something of no importance. Really? The PEOTUS is tracking dress inventory in DC? What? It made a number of reporters--from various organizations--investigate and here's a sample of what they found.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/09/us...check.html

http://time.com/4629690/donald-trump-inauguration-clothes/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/...r_the.html

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