Trump has been saying “I don’t know” a lot.
Let’s take a look at what he does know.
Has anyone figured this out yet? I certainly have not. We have had hard evidence of Trump lying, almost every day... for years.
And yet his MAGA_True_Believers © continue to believe his every word. How do they cope with such cognitive dissonance. It really should drive them mad.
Oh... wait...
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But there is so much Donald Trump does know! The man is a world-class expert when it comes to knowing how to abuse and sexually assault women. A judge in New York even ruled that he had sexually assaulted and likely raped E. Jean Carroll in a case that awarded Ms. Carroll $5 million, which he has been avoiding paying by appealing the jury’s verdict. At least 26 women came forward in 2016 during his first campaign for president claiming that he had sexually assaulted or harassed them. Trump was even heard on an audio tape made by the television show Access Hollywood claiming, “When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.” Donald Trump is so comfortable with the idea of abusing women that he appointed a man, Pete Hegseth, who had been accused of raping a woman and had paid her $50,000 to keep her mouth shut about it.
Trump knows a lot about adultery. He cheated on his first wife, the mother of his first three children, with his second wife, who gave him his fourth child. He cheated on his third wife just four months after she gave birth to his fifth child. And like his Secretary of Defense, he knew exactly how to keep that transgression quiet: He paid the woman with whom he had had sex, Stormy Daniels, $130,000 to deny that she had an affair with him during his first campaign for president.
Despite the fact that Trump knew E. Jean Carroll well enough to rape her in a department store dressing room, and he knew Stormy Daniels well enough to have sex with her in a hotel room while playing at a celebrity golf tournament, Trump claims to this day he never met either woman and doesn’t know who they are.
Trump knows a lot about avoiding paying taxes. According to the New York Times, which got access to two decades of his tax returns, he paid no tax at all in 11 of 18 of those years. In 2016 and 2017, years during which he reported making millions of dollars of income, he paid only $750.
Not only does Trump know how to cheat on his golf game – he claims to have won every club tournament that he has entered – he knows how to use his ownership of multiple golf courses in this country and overseas to avoid paying taxes. Between the years 2000 and 2020, Trump reported losing $315.6 million from his ownership of golf courses. He famously went bankrupt five times while he owned casinos in Atlantic City, so it’s clear that the author of “The Art of the Deal” knows one hell of a lot about losing money doing business.
Trump claims to know everything there is to know about tariffs and how they are a tax on other countries, not on this country. He knows all about how to “make deals” with other countries over tariffs: first you impose absurdly high tariffs on foreign nations. Then you cancel them.
Trump knew plenty about how to steal an election in 2016. “Russia, are you listening?” His factotum Roger Stone was in touch with both Wikileaks and “Guccifer 2.0,” later identified as a Russian intelligence agent. After taking office, he knew exactly how to lie about it, claiming that “Russia Russia Russia” was a “hoax.”
Having lost the 2020 election, he knew all about how to steal that one by working assiduously to overturn the results. He knew exactly how to incite a riot of his supporters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. “Be there. Will be wild!” he tweeted.
For the next four years, he knew how to lie about the 2020 election: he won it. Biden lost, and he was the one who “stole” it.
In fact, if there is one thing Donald Trump really, really, really knows how to do, it is telling lies. The Washington Post kept count of his lies during his first term, finding that he had told 30,573 “untruths” in four years. Seemingly, that took some effort.
Or not. He’s already lying about not knowing so much about what he has done as president. Recently, he claimed, “I don’t know her,” about Casey Means, his appointee to be Surgeon General. Maybe that’s because she wasn’t an employee of Fox News. He knows a lot of Fox News hosts, appointing more than 20 of them to jobs in his administration.
It is all smoke and mirrors, what Donald Trump claims he knows and doesn’t know. What we know is, whenever he opens his mouth, he’s lying.
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The collapse of "truth" as an admirable ideal, for a large swath of the American people is, to me, one of the most fascinating aspects of MAGAland.
Thats the only honest thing he ever says.
the "I don't recall" statements are saved for the courtrooms ...
You cant have a president who engages in this level of constant deceptive statements and have a properly functioning national self image and society. There is a an ongoing erosion of the character of the nation and who knows what will be left after four years. Nothing good we can surmise.
the tragedy is the media stands around with their thumb up their ass because "Trump" is good for their business.
You sound like Bill Bennett in 1998..
and?
I wonder what Bill Bennett would have thought of the trump presidencies.
So much damage is being done to our society through trumpism i doubt if many of us on this old peoples forum will live long enough to see the damage reversed.
You're an optimist, John, just for imagining that it might be reversed. Not a sure thing. Maybe not even likely.