NYT Columnist: Donald Trump 'Is a Pathological Liar'

[DonViejo]

by Jon Levine | 6:28 am, July 10th, 2017

New York Times veteran Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow is not prepared to give Donald Trump an inch.

The Grey Lady’s most vocal and consistent anti-Trump author drew fresh blood in his latest Monday Op-Ed. In “Putin Meets His Progeny,” Blow said he couldn’t be sure what to make of the Trump-Putin meeting at the G20 and that differing accounts between the two sides were hard to parse given their mutual lack of credibility.

Blow began the piece by reminding readers that in the past Trump has claimed to have a great relationship with Putin… and also to have never met him.

Per Blow:

<< Clearly, Trump having a great relationship with Putin, and Trump not knowing Putin at all, cannot both be true. I say this to remind you of something that you can never allow to become normal and never allow to become acceptable: Our “president” is a pathological liar. He lies about everything, all the time. Lying is his resting condition. >>

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more
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-columnist-donald-trump-is-a-pathological-liar/

[longship]

1. eeeYup!

This is what this is all about.

Meanwhile Drumpf continues his Tweeting. I don't think that will suffice in a court of law.

Meanwhile Mueller has one helluva team of prosecutors and investigators.

We may soon find out who's on top of things.

[Achilleaze]

2. He is an embodiment, and role model, for republican "family values"

the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, is what the republicans regard as a man of distinction. They apparently want their children and grandchildren to grow up following his example - a role model for generations of republican kiddos.

[not fooled]

9. Yep

Lie, cheat, treat workers like dirt, commit sexual assault, endorse nepotism, be an overt racist, use religion for political ends, rule for the plutocracy, deprive voters of their rights in order to maintain power at all costs--yep, dump embodies the values of the modern-day puke party.

[Podkayne K]

3. There goes Trump

making American GRATE again!

[bora13]

4. Lying is his resting condition.

lying while tweeting while shitting is his resting position.

The Army calls resting while in formation "parade rest."

tRump lovers call that ever sought after moment in the early AM of the White House, "trump rest."

Mueller calls the whole damn thing, "i know who will be under arrest."

[Perseus]

5. Here is the KEY paragraph of his article

"America is under sustained, possibly even accelerated, attack by a foreign power, the same one that attacked our election, and Trump not only wavers on the source of the attack, but also refuses to condemn the culprit and in fact has a penchant for praising him. This whole thing stinks to high heaven, and we must press on until we uncover the source of the rot."

"POSSIBLY EVEN ACCELERATE ATTACK"

Talk, talk, talk is not going to stop it...I don't know what the FBI, CIA are doing to stop this, but I fear for the USA that a rude awakening may happen in the not so distant future...I post it yesterday this same thought...Evil people are not stupid and they work very fast, to think that Putin and his American cohorts have not been planning this for years is to fool oneself. Things ARE going according to plan, but they can be stopped...anytime now???

[iluvtennis]

6. Agree with Charles Blow. We the US (media, us, etc) should NEVER NORMALIZE the lying.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. So true...

Interesting article I found that's kind of related.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/01/why-post-truth-age-bullshitters-are-winning

[hamsterjill]

8. More journalists need to use the "L" word.

I see some journalists tip-toeing around calling Trump a liar. A liar he is and a liar he should be called.

More need to come forward and unabashedly call him what he is.

[Orrex]

10. Sad that this is "news" rather than universally recognized truth

But I applaud Levine for stating it so plainly. We need much more of that.