Create a plausible path to deniability, it is not that hard.
Not 45, Donald Trump.
This man lies so much he is either entirely un-tethered from reality or he is so delusional that he believes his own bullshit.
He lies as easily as some people breathe. 162 lies and counting at his most recent press conference.
Ex Trump Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham spoke at the recent Democratic National Convention.
She shared some interesting insights into her former boss. She said that he had no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth. But what she said next really piqued my interest.
Former President Trump says he has “no regrets” that his handpicked Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion.
“The federal government should have nothing to do with this issue. It’s being solved at the state level, and people are very happy about it,” Trump said in an interview with CBS News. “No regrets, no. I wouldn’t have regrets. I did something most people felt was undoable.” The former president has repeatedly boasted about his role in ending Roe v. Wade, even as he and the Republican Party have broadly tried to stay away from engaging on such a divisive issue.
Abortion has galvanized Democrats in the two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe, and Trump has struggled with whether to embrace or downplay his role in the matter.
Democrats are campaigning on protecting abortion rights, and Vice President Harris, their presidential nominee, has been the administration’s point person on reproductive rights. Harris has pledged to fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade across all states. Trump has settled on the position that abortion policy is up to the states, taking credit for ending Roe and falsely claiming that “all legal scholars, all Democrats, all Republicans” have been trying to let the states decide their own abortion policies for 52 years.
In fact, poll after poll has shown that most Americans think Roe should have been preserved and support access to abortion.
Trump has characterized the 2022 Dobbs decision as something that unified the country, allowing voters in every state to decide whether they want to ban abortion outright, after a certain number of weeks, or protect it.
I read Trump say that liberals, conservatives, everybody agreed on one thing, that they all hated Roe and wanted to get rid of it. Which is complete bullshit. Most women in this country felt like they had a federal right to decide their own reproductive activity, the demise of Roe created a backlash in this country that is still reverberating. Seven states, including very red Kansas, have put the matter to the ballot and proposition and the score is currently seven to nothing.
I have never heard a liberal call for the end of Roe. Ruth Bader Ginsburg had some misgivings over some of the legal basis for the decision but she never called for it to be rescinded.
Trump has shifted like a reed in the wind on this issue. One year he is pro-choice, the next pro life, he can't keep it straight. Because the man has no real ideology except for the personal amassing of power. That is all he cares about. He can brag to the pro life crowd about doing Roe in and then make statements like he did on Truth Social this week that women were going to love his stance on reproductive rights.
But it wasn't all that long ago that he had this to say:
While he was still a GOP candidate for president, Trump said those who seek abortions should be subject to "some form of punishment." Asked in an MSNBC town hall whether there should be punishment, Trump said: “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.”
“For the woman?” host Chris Matthews asked Trump.
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“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
2 comments:
Trump is a truly awful person…. He has no sense of right or wrong… his only concern is how whatever says or does effects his own self….
I don't know how it will turn out. We are several political infinities from the end of this insanity cycle. However it does seem that the blush is off the rose to some extent with Mr. Trump. It is starting to sound like the same old tune, kinda like a bad fifties advertising jingle repeated forever. I guess it just depends on how many folks hear the hymns of angels when Mr. Trump emits his words versus how many hear dinosaur farts.
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