Lying Fatigue

YOU GET TIRED OF THE LIES. No, Mr. President, the United States does not contribute ninety percent of the money needed to fund NATO. Its more like twenty two percent. And please quit trying to sell us on the idea that you, Mr. President, put your foot down, insisted that all NATO members start ponying up more, and the very minute you did this, they got the message, began to comply, and all was well with the grand alliance. Fact is, all NATO members made the two percent commitment years ago, and they had all set their current military spending levels before you entered the scene. Our European allies, based on their comments, are rolling their eyes at the American president, and are fully aware that his binge credit seeking is nothing other than mid term election campaign strategy. The lies started early, and came often. The size of the crowds at the inauguration, the thousands of Muslims celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center...early, and often. Trump is not the only republican afflicted by a pronounced honesty deficit. The Senate majority leader, Mr. Mitch, might have been the president's role model. You'll recall that McConnell refused to conduct hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court by using as a pretext that he wanted the American people to make the choice, so it was necessary to wait until after the presidential election of 2016. In reality, the American people had nothing to do with it. What Mitch wanted was to give the republicans a chance to capture the White House, and to thus name a conservative justice to the court. The speaker was not upholding the wishes of the American people; he was seeking to implement his own personal political agenda. Among Trump supporters and conservative politicians, lying happens early and often, lying is a way of life.