Trump's truthful hyperbole is not truthful.
Years ago Trump was quoted as saying that he didn't lie, he only indulged in "truthful hyperbole".
It is much of what we are seeing today.
It is what most people call "lying".
He didn't steal Top Secret documents and put people's lives at risk all around the world. Instead, he only took what belonged to him and the FBI was wrong to break into his home and spread them all around the floor and take them back.
It must be nice to explain away all the laws on the books as somehow imposing on your right to claim ownership and put your name on it.
It was not classified documents that he took. He "declassified" them everytime he left the Oval Office with them, he says. As if he had a magic wand, he changed all the laws regarding the handling of classified information. If needed, he could get a witness to verify that he "de-classified" them.
It is not only a form of lying. It is a distortion of reality. It is an alternative reality that lives in a fantasy world.
