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WSJ editorial: If Trump "doesnt show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude hes a
Ah-even the WSJ is now concerned about big mouth Trump!!
Link to tweet
A Presidents Credibility
Trumps falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-presidents-credibility-1490138920
March 21, 2017 7:28 p.m. ET
1044 COMMENTS
If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? Were not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.
The latest example is Mr. Trumps refusal to back off his Saturday morning tweet of three weeks ago that he had found out that [Barack] Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory on Election Day. He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said they have seen no such evidence.
Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. Sean Spicerwho doesnt deserve this treatmentwas dispatched last week to repeat an assertion by a Fox News commentator that perhaps the Obama Administration had subcontracted the wiretap to British intelligence.
That bungle led to a public denial from the British Government Communications Headquarters, and British news reports said the U.S. apologized. But then the White House claimed there was no apology. For the sake of grasping for any evidence to back up his original tweet, and the sin of pride in not admitting error, Mr. Trump had his spokesman repeat an unchecked TV claim that insulted an ally.
The wiretap tweet is also costing Mr. Trump politically as he hands his opponents a sword. Mr. Trump has a legitimate question about why the U.S. was listening to his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and who leaked news of his meeting with the Russian ambassador. But that question never gets a hearing because the near-daily repudiation of his false tweet is a bigger media story.
FBI director James Comey also took revenge on Monday...........................
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WSJ editorial: If Trump "doesnt show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude hes a (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2017
OP
I think we have crossed into the "most americans" range a while ago concerning how they
beachbum bob
Mar 2017
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beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)1. I think we have crossed into the "most americans" range a while ago concerning how they
view trump and the truth
he is so used to lying his ass off as a "business man"...he thought he could con more than 35% of americans...aint working
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)2. Trump is a fake president
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)3. If I have lost WSJ I have lost my base
Hat Tip to LBJ.
IndianaDave
(612 posts)4. Sounds like the WSJ is finally catching up to the majority of Americans!