The Washington Post has, since 2016, been keeping a running tab on the number of verifiable lies told by our Caesar Disgustus. Last month, the Post announced that our fibber-in-chief has let out over 10,000 stinkers a trend that is on the rise.
You see, writes Charles
Blow in The New York Times, “(T)rump lies about
everything and for every reason. He lies to brag. He lies to deflect.
He lies to inflate. He lies to defame. He lies to praise. He
sometimes lies just for the sport of it.”
“He is being trained, right before our eyes, to see
that there is no cost for this deceit among the people who support
him.
“He can lie at a rally, right to their faces, and
they will still cheer. He can lie in public proclamations, and the
Republican cowards in Congress will find a way to defend, rationalize
or forgive it.
“When a dyed-in-the-wool thief realizes that there
are no consequences for theft, everything not nailed down will go
missing. The same is true of the liar: When there is no consequence
the deceiver is unbound and unashamed.” (1)
That he has never suffered consequence, in some measure,
explains the utter shamelessness of the man. His daddy's millions have always been there to protect
him. Until recently....
But there are times, Blow contends, that the lies of our
Caesar Disgustus betrays vulnerability, and that is “when he
lies out of desperation, out of the fear of being found out, blamed,
reprimanded, possibly even abandoned.” These, say Blow, are the
moments we can relish.
“In those moments, at least when he makes a public
appearance in conjunction, his eyes are stretched wide and his face
flush. He looks defensive and nervous. The above-it-all posture of
imperviousness vanishes, and he is reduced to the most mortal of
beings, on for whom, like the rest of us, the truth still has
purchase and power...It is in those moments, that Trump is most human
and our ire toward this liar is most vindicated and validated.” (2)
Blow points to the news
conference at tRUMP Tower in the wake of Charlottesville, and his
“his deer-in-the-headlights response
to a question put to him on Air Force One about hush payment to a
porn star.
“It is in the police-interrogation-room-like
correction that he didn't mean to side with Russia—and deny our
intelligence community—while standing next to Vladimir Putin in
Helsinki.
“In all those moments he simply reeks of dread and
trepidation. In those moments, we are reminded that Trump knows what
other thinking people know: In a world not blinded and numbed by
racial tribalism, demographic fears and cultural panic, these issues
that barely nick him would cut him smooth and deep.
“It is in those moments that we are reminded of
what normal felt like, when an apology or explanation was compelled,
and politicians confront their foibles with some degree of
contrition.
“Trump knows nothing of contrition, but take his
moments of desperation as proof that the world has not completely
gone mad, that sin still has the ability to convict.” (3)
The tragedy that is Donald J. tRUMP has roots that span
his lifetime. Perhaps it was the approbation of his parents who
abandoned him by sending him into exile to a military academy. In
any case he has, deep in his psyche, a controlling distrust of
authority joined with an overweening need to gain its approval. This
is a toxic mix leading, by degrees, to the creation of an obscenely
grotesque facade. A facade made of whole cloth; a facade born of
deceit and maintained by lies. The question is, will the “people”
hold him to account and convict?
The problem is that while sin may still have the ability
to convict we have on our hands a sociopath that does not recognize
sin and is surrounding himself with sycophants who parrot the mantra.
It isn't enough for right-thinking people to know in their hearts
that he is guilty. Disgustus must face consequence with the
appropriate constitutional and legal retributions. The republic
hangs in the balance.
An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh
Impeach and Imprison.
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- Blow, Charles M. “An Ode to Desperate Don” The New York Times. Monday, May 20, 2019. Page A27
- Ibid
- Ibid
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