Trump Has Entered The Lying Stratosphere, Says Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tony Stark, Jan 12, 2019.

  1. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-friedman-say-without_us_5c397207e4b0922a21d514f7

    Trump Has Entered The Lying Stratosphere, Says Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist

    “No one believes a word out of his mouth,” Thomas Friedman said of the president.
    By Mary Papenfuss

    Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman didn’t hold back on his scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a “disturbed” president who lies so often that “no one trusts this man.”

    “If we face a crisis with a president who no one believes who’s surrounded by a C-team in a dysfunctional White House, then God save us,” Friedman told Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

    Trump has told “one too many lies,” Friedman said. “I don’t know whether it’s lie number 6,000 or 7,000 — The Washington Post has been keeping tab — but ... we’re in a moment now where people simply don’t believe a word out of his mouth. When he can stand up and say, ‘I never said Mexico would pay for the wall,’ we’re through the looking glass.”

    The “core” problem is that “we have a president without shame who is backed by a party without spine that is supported by a network called Fox News without integrity,” Friedman said. “Fasten your seatbelt.”

    Friedman called Trump a president with “formal authority but no moral authority.” The most frightening thing, Friedman noted, is that the Republican Party will do nothing to stand up to him.

    ”We have a disturbed man as president – that’s very clear,” Friedman said. “We have a party that is not ready to stand up to it. What worries me is now we’re threatening our institutions.”

    The “biggest crisis right now is in the Oval Office,” Friedman said.
     
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  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles



    Know what's also older than the wheel? The ladder
     
  3. The ACA was the biggest lie dropped on the American public in decades.
     
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  4. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Trump lied and said he was going to fix it
     
  5. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Thanks to republicans.

    When it was implemented by a republican in Massachusetts, it worked pretty well.
     
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    The implementation of universal health coverage in Massachusetts was very different than ACA. It was not a train wreck in the manner that ACA was.
     
  7. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    How so?