Donald Trump lied when he claimed his inauguration crowd was the greatest ever. He lied when he said President Obama was not born in America. He lied when he said he didn’t believe Russia tried to interfere in the election.
He lied when he said he wouldn’t release his tax records because they were under audit.
In fact I believe very little that he says. This is upsetting, because it is important to believe the person who is going to articulate the reasons he is sending our children and grandchildren to die, possibly, in future wars.
The lies previously stated, however, at least do not appear to form the basis for policy decisions. However, that is not true for his recent outrageous lies about fraudulent voters.
They are intended to be the basis, not only for policy, but more seriously, for enacting new laws. I predicted he or the Republican Party would make claims of voter fraud as soon as I heard the results of the election, because I am sure that laws designed to discourage and even prevent voters who might have otherwise voted Democratic, in many states, were a factor in the Democratic Party’s losses.
The danger to our democratic system is far greater than I imagined after 9/11, and I am afraid the greatest threat is not from the outside but rather from within.
LEON BOTKIN, MIAMI
Note from KBJ: Either Leon Botkin doesn't know what a lie is, in which case he is a moron, or he is making unfounded accusations about our president, in which case he is immoral. For the record, a lie is (1) the utterance of (2) a proposition (3) that is known by the utterer at the time of utterance to be false and (4) that is made with the intent to deceive. Since lying is presumptively wrong, one should accuse another of lying only if one has good evidence for the truth of each of these four components. Botkin almost certainly has no evidence of the third and fourth of these in the case of President Trump. What a creep.
