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Originally Posted by Ohio

Donald Trump has "lied" for almost 4 years that claims of him being a Russian asset were lies and fake news. Liberal "fact-checkers" faithfully counted every one of these denials as "lies."

Robert Muller had months and months with dozens of top prosecutors working with dozens and dozens more government FBI agents and unlimited resources ... and then concluded that there was not a single shred of evidence that A-N-Y American had colluded with the Russians.

Yet, still today, millions of Americans believe in their heart of hearts that Trump was and still is Putin's White House Puppet who interfered with the 2016 election.

Sounds like you might still be one of these "believers."

Cherry-picking one topic on which you think Trump is not lying does not gloss over the constant repetition of conspiracy theories, including those originated by the Russian propaganda machine. And just constant false statements on a whole host of issues.

Look, I don't think Trump is actively some Russian asset. But he is apparently too stupid to realize when he is acting in their interest by repeating lies that they created (whether or not Trump realizes the source). He was happy to use US intelligence to order a drone strike, but ignores reams of paper full of US intelligence when he brown-noses Putin and simply declares Russia did not meddle in the 2016 US election. And ignores more of that intelligence (which he almost never reads anyway) by asserting that it was really Ukraine that was doing the meddling. Another lie which he has repeated so much that the mooing cows now believe it to be the truth. (I am assuming that you are not among that particular herd.)

And even when he makes a mistake — like the hurricane threatening Alabama — he can't admit he had some faulty information, but doubles-down and draws up a fake map to support his stupidity.

I know it is a dangerous position to take, but he is approaching the mythical "it's a lie because his lips are moving (or thumbs are typing)" level of distrust in anything he says. I desperately want to vote for a Republican. But as long as he is on the ticket, I am leaning toward a scorched-earth policy with regard to any politician who blindly supported him these 3 years. We survived 8 years of Obama. Maybe the Republican party can find an intelligent version of itself during 4 to 8 years wandering in the desert. It is becoming clear that the promised land that so many thought we were entering was really the entry hall for Hell. I'll take the Sinai peninsula over that any day.