Trump just keeps on lying — because it works
Max Boot
It sure works on his idiot sycophants. They’re incredibly willing to believe his lies. WTF is wrong with them?
Gotta love how the real, thinking conservatives are often the best critics of Donny and morons like Whell.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ause-it-works/
President Trump is again confirming H.L. Mencken’s acidulous observation that “No one in this world … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Only in Trump’s case he is not insulting the intelligence of all the American people — just his avid followers.
Trump continues telling lies that not even a dimwitted child could possibly believe. There is, for example, his notorious May 31 tweet asserting that “I never fired James Comey because of Russia!” Unless Trump is delusional or an amnesiac, he must have known that every television program and Twitter feed would put this claim side by side with his admission on May 11, 2017, in an NBC News interview, that he fired Comey precisely in order to stop the investigation of the “Russia thing.” But Trump simply did not care that his falsehood could be so easily exposed, because he knew his followers would believe him, not the evidence in front of their own lying eyes.
This is also the explanation for Trump’s nonstop peddling of nonsensical conspiracy theories to convince his acolytes that he is the victim of a Deep State plot. His con job began on March 4, 2017, when he tweeted: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Months later, his own Justice Department admitted this simply was not so — there was no evidence of any wiretap.
But by then, the conspiracy claims had already morphed. Trump’s supporters took to saying that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, had illegally unmasked the names of Trump aides in surveillance transcripts. This, too, was false — repudiated by Trump’s then-national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.
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But facts and logic are irrelevant to the Republican White Walkers; they will follow their Night King wherever he leads, even if he is leading them to perdition. A recent poll finds that 61 percent of Republicans think the FBI is framing Trump, and only 13 percent believe the special counsel’s investigation is legitimate. There is a reason the president lies so frequently and outrageously: It works! Trump is playing his followers for suckers, and they are merrily colluding in their own deception. Truly you cannot underestimate today’s Republicans.