Courtesy of Pam Martens.
In the past few days, two reliable media enablers of Donald Trump have veered off script with stinging rebukes of the President’s epic pattern of lies. The question is – what took them so long. Editorials in the foreign press dating back as far as a year ago recognized that Trump’s insatiable need to lie rendered him unfit for the presidency of the United States. Since April of last year the Los Angeles Times has been running a series of forensic editorials attempting to explain what it is in Trump’s personality that would explain “his moral vacuity and his disregard for the truth, as well as his stubborn resistance to sensible advice.” The editorials have been headlined: “Our Dishonest President,” “Why Trump Lies,” and “Enough is Enough,” to mention just three.
The Washington Post determined that Trump’s lies are so vast that they must be chronicled in a database. That database now lists more than 3,001 lies or misleading claims since Trump took the oath of office on January 20, 2017.
Last Thursday, two previously reliable media supporters of Trump spoke out. The editorial page of the Wall Street Journal published a scorching online editorial on Trump’s equivocations on the hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. It read in part:
“Mr. Trump’s public deceptions are surely relevant to his job as President, and the attempted cover-up has done greater harm than any affair would have. Mr. Trump asked Americans, not least his supporters, to believe his claims about the payments. They were false and conveniently so in putting the onus on Mr. Cohen. Now, as more of the story has emerged, he wants everyone to believe a new story that he could have told the first time.
“Mr. Trump is compiling a record that increases the likelihood that few will believe him during a genuine crisis—say, a dispute over speaking with special counsel Robert Mueller or a nuclear showdown with Kim Jong Un. Mr. Trump should worry that Americans will stop believing anything he says.”
Also on Thursday, Neil Cavuto of Fox News said on his show: “So let me be clear Mr. President, how can you drain the swamp if you’re the one who keeps muddying the waters. You didn’t know about that $130,000 payment to a porn star – until you did. Said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer, Michael Cohen, handled this until acknowledging today you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this.” (See video below.)
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