Tim Barrus: New York Times
“False and misleading statements.”
That cotton candy phrase again. The entire Trump narrative is a LIE.
The lies just keep coming. But we weaken their power, especially with the use of the term: misleading. As if this slip of the tongue takes us by accident down the Trump rabbit hole.
I deplore Trump’s abuse of the American people. And his abuse of the media is patently offensive and catagorically a big, fat, sweating series of lies.
Nevertheless, the media does not take responsibility for the exent to which they were all in awe of the flashing charisma of Trump.
And they played feasance.
They did not elect Trump. We did that. But their reverential respect mixed with fear and wonder created a tidal wave of sheer compliance exhibited by choices in language that constructed a cloak of invisability more hardened than a Klingon spaceship you cannot see because it really isn’t there.
But it is there. The Klingons speak a difficult language. It isn’t real anymore than “misleading” is real. Or imbued with anymore truth than John Bolton was, in fact, not an enabler of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is there because the media cannot call a spade a spade, and either can the vast army of enablers that keep Trump in power. Bolton insisted on a subpoena. Whoever heard of anyone being compelled to be compelled.
Trump will bleed Bolton dry with legal fees because that is what Trump does.
The books are coming fast and furious. Some of them even use the phrase, lies through his teeth.