Trump's lies are getting bolder and the press is stuck in the middle

[Demovictory9]

Big Lies
Either you reject the lies, or you accept the lies.
Of all the divides in American life today, this is the divide I keep thinking about. President Trump and his allies lie with reckless abandon. They make dishonest politicians from the past look like amateurs. When they get called out, they lie about the lying. Trump did this on Wednesday after Robert Mueller contradicted several of the president's fictions about the Mueller Report. When PBS "NewsHour" correspondent Yamiche Alcindor pointed this out to him, citing Mueller's own words, Trump denied it and insulted Alcindor.

I'm often told that people are "numb" to Trump's noise and nonsense. But let's examine this for a minute:
Why is there not more outrage?

Some people, primarily fans of Trump, excuse or rationalize the lies for various reasons. Other people simply cannot. So much of the anti-Trump outrage from progressives and anti-Trump conservatives and columnists and pundits boils down to "He's deceiving you. He's lying to your face. Don't you care?"

And the press is right smack dab in the middle of this because advocating for facts gets you labeled "fake news." Which is, again, another lie.

Old-fashioned tenets of the news business fade away in this fog of disinformation. For example: "What the president says is news." I still think that's true, but when he's telling you not to believe your own eyes and ears, is it really news?

Mueller's best moments
Robert Mueller was probably the most-criticized man in America on Wednesday. And I'll get to that shortly. But I thought his strongest moments as a witness were when he debunked Trump's claims about Russia, WikiLeaks, the special counsel probe, etc. This CNN banner summed it up perfectly: "Mueller: Trump was not exonerated, Russia's election attack was no hoax and investigation was no witch hunt."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/media/mueller-hearing-trump-lies/index.html

[True Blue American]

1. I am not numb

And neither are many of my friends. We are furious, angry as hell, not going to take it any more!

The reason most of us have given up on the Constant Trump exposure, the lies he tells, the news about him.

[Iliyah]

2. It was a good day for people who believe in

democracy. We are uniting.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Here's video of the exchange between Trump and Yamiche Alcindor yesterday.

He has clashed with her before by accusing her of being racist for asking him a question about racism. (For those not familiar with her, Yamiche is black.) He treats her in the same way he does April Ryan. I don't know if I'd be able to keep my composure as well as they do.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. Fat Donnie needs to be challenged every time he says Article II lets him do

whatever he wants, "but I don't talk about that." This is the Big Lie, which if repeated enough times becomes the truth.

If he continues to get away with it, his autocratic tendencies will become stronger and stronger, and even the courts won't be able to rein him in.