We are sad to inform you that truth has died in Washington . Funeral
services will be held next Thursday at a church to be announced. The passing
had been expected for some time because truth has been fading away for years.
Politicians are not particularly known for their veracity.
(“I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski.”) But of late political
aversion to truth has become stronger than ever. Take for example, the
President of the United
States . Years ago he spread the word that Barack
Obama had been born in Kenya .
It did not matter that it was an outright lie. Donald Trump kept repeating it
for years.
It would take a book to list all of the falsehoods Mr. Trump
uttered during the campaign, but one of his first was typical: He had seen
thousands of Muslems in New Jersey cheering with the planes hit the twin towers
in New York. It did not matter that the event never happened. Trump’s proof was
that many of his followers claimed that they had “seen” the same thing.
Winning the presidency did not cure the Donald of his
“little fibs.” The day after the inauguration Donald accused the press of lying
about the size of the crowd at the inauguration, claiming that it was larger
than reported by the media. The National Park Service tweeted pictures of the
crowds at Trump’s and at Obama’s first inauguration. The pictures clearly
showed a lot more people at the Obama event. Shortly afterwards the Park
Service’s twitter account was deactivated.
Who really cares about which event had the biggest
attendance? Nobody except Honest Donald. He cared enough to have his press
secretary, the hapless Sean Spicer, berate the press for their “dishonest”
reporting. Why would anyone quibble about statements that are so easily
disproved? Is Donald’s ego so fragile that he cannot stand the thought that
Obama’s inauguration might have attracted a larger crowd than Trump’s own?
When Spicer’s “facts” were easily shown to be untrue,
Kellyanne Conway came to his rescue, stating that Spicer had cited “alternate
facts.” “Alternate facts” occur when someone doesn’t like the real facts, so
just makes up something that he likes better. In some circles, alternate facts
are known as lies.
One of the reasons that there is so much resistance to the
Trump presidency, besides the fact that he probably had some unwarranted help,
is that Hillary got almost 3 million more votes than he did. Honest Donald got
tired of hearing about this, so he claimed, untruthfully, that he would have
won the popular vote had there not been so many illegals voting for Hillary.
If you’re looking for the truth coming from Washington , you’re going
to have to wait at least four years.
