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Trump’s laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims (archive.ph)

submitted 2 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t think that Trump lies per se, since that implies an awareness of and deliberate misrepresentation of a known truth. Rather, I think that the part of his brain that’s supposed to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and thereby guide and restrict belief, is simply broken.

I completely disagree. Maybe some of the small casual lies Trump thinks are real, but Trump absolutely knows he is lying on the Big Lies. The way to understand Trump is that he does not think dishonesty is a vice. Trump thinks that honesty is a vice. Trump thinks of himself as a master class liar and he loves that he is so good at it that he even fools some of his enemies. He has actually made many statements about this over his life.

(1) Trump's ghost writer on "Art of the Deal" who spent 18 months side by side with Trump says "Trump has a complete lack of conscious about lying" and that "He lies strategically." and that his lying ability gives him a great advantage over others.

(2) We have absolute proof that his most famous Big Lie, the 'Start the Steal' conspiracy, was something Trump planned before the election. Steve Bannon is on video tape admitting before the election their plan was that if Biden was winning, Trump is going to say he stole it. "Trump will say he is a winner, but that does mean he is a winner".

because he’s 100% sincere.

He is 0% sincere on almost all of his lies.