"Trump's Lies and Your Brain"... Politico Magazine, Maria Konnicova:

[Stuart G]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658

Politico Magazine,
By MARIA KONNIKOVA
| January/February 2017

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All presidents lie. Richard Nixon said he was not a crook, yet he orchestrated the most shamelessly crooked act in the modern presidency. Ronald Reagan said he wasn’t aware of the Iran-Contra deal; there’s evidence he was. Bill Clinton said he did not have sex with that woman; he did, or close enough. Lying in politics transcends political party and era. It is, in some ways, an inherent part of the profession of politicking.

But Donald Trump is in a different category. The sheer frequency, spontaneity and seeming irrelevance of his lies have no precedent. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton were protecting their reputations; Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it. A whopping 70 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4 percent were completely true, and 11 percent mostly true. (Compare that to the politician Trump dubbed “crooked,” Hillary Clinton: Just 26 percent of her statements were deemed false.)

Those who have followed Trump’s career say his lying isn’t just a tactic, but an ingrained habit. New York tabloid writers who covered Trump as a mogul on the rise in the 1980s and ’90s found him categorically different from the other self-promoting celebrities in just how often, and pointlessly, he would lie to them. In his own autobiography, Trump used the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” a term coined by his ghostwriter referring to the flagrant truth-stretching that Trump employed, over and over to help close sales. Trump apparently loved the wording, and went on to adopt it as his own.


rest of article at link..............

comment by Stuart G:......I guess this is not a new subject. Looks like it has been researched before. (date of this article is early 2017) And it will be researched again. I wonder if someone has done research on Giuliani's lies?... I suspect that has been also done.