The Truth About Trump’s Lies
By: Edward Anderson
Tags: True Crime, Politics, Election 2020, Family, Psychology

The Truth About Trump’s Lies

The lame duck president might be telling his version of the truth.

Donald J Trump photo from Gage Skidmore

Donald J. Trump is many things, none of them good. For his entire political career, rivals have painted him as an amoral demagogue. They pointed out that he couldn’t even make a casino profitable; how could he run the country?

Those who railed against him were correct on nearly everything. Even before the novel coronavirus pandemic shut the economy down, there were signs of stress. Economists forecasted a recession before the 2020 election and believed it could deepen into a depression.

After bungling the country’s response to the pandemic, he decided that the economy was worth killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Trump urged his supporters to storm the capitols of their states and demand they reopen. But only in the states run by those he considered his enemies.

When polling numbers suggested that Trump would lose the election to President-Elect Joe Biden, he started denouncing the polls. He claimed the election would be rigged. Without evidence, he alleged mail-in voting would allow people to cast ballots that were not valid.

Donald Trump knew deep in his soul how unpopular he truly is.

Election Fraud

Despite his knowledge of his approval rating, Trump would not acknowledge it. For most of his career, he was surrounded by yes-men. Very few people dared to counter him or tell him that his decision was not a good one. When he took office, he assumed it would be more of the same.

His tenure started with protests against him. Trump comforted himself with the belief that these were just a few people who disagreed with his policy until Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Trump then pivoted to blaming angry Democrats. He floated the theory that they were angry he beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Then baselessly began to assert he actually won the popular vote but only if 3 million illegal votes were subtracted from his opponent’s total. Evidence was not offered for this theory.

Adding insult to injury, the former reality star put together a voter fraud commission. They came back with a report that said there was no systemic voter fraud. However, 17 intelligence agencies did find that Russia helped Trump win the 2016 election via a massive disinformation campaign.

In the 2020 election, Trump began to spout the same conspiracy theories about voter and election fraud. As with the 2016 election, he was polling way behind the Democratic nominee and felt he needed an excuse for his loss.

As it became clear that Biden would win the 2020 election, Trump claimed that dead people voted in the election.

Dead People Are Voting Republican

After Biden was declared the winner of the election, Trump continued to rant and rave about voter and election fraud. In addition to claiming that voting machines changed votes to the Democrat, he also claimed that ballots were cast from people who had long been dead.

It stirred a controversy. Those on the left claimed he was a sore loser and needed to come to terms with the reality that he would be evicted from the White House on January 20, 2021. The people had spoken. High profile Republicans, like Mitch McConnell, said Trump had every right to challenge the results of the election in the courts.

More than four dozen judges dismissed the cases that were brought before them. The Supreme Court refused to hear two cases filed with them, stating they did not have the authority to see them.

Frustrated by these losses, Trump continued to claim he won the election. That Biden would only be sworn in because of the dead people who voted.

As it turned out, dead people were voting. Except they didn’t vote for Biden, those ballots were cast for Trump. A situation he has yet to talk about, not even resorting to calling it fake news.

The case involves a Pennsylvania man casting ballots for his deceased mother and mother-in-law. Bruce Bartman committed the felony in an attempt to ensure that Trump would serve a second term. Officials caught the ballots after they were counted.

Many Democrats have pointed this out but missed a bigger point.

Lies Are A Different Kind Of Truth

Officials on the left claim that Trump doesn't care about the truth. To be certain, he has a very tenuous relationship with it. Some call him a pathological liar, which has merit but misses the bigger part of the puzzle.

Time and again, Trump has made assertions about situations that turned out to be true but distorted. Using the voter fraud example, perhaps he didn’t know that his supporters would use dead relatives to ensure his victory. However, the likelier scenario is that he did. Even if only because they follow his word and listen for his dog whistles.

Rather than lying, Trump uses confusion to his advantage. In 2016, he claimed the election was rigged. As it turned out, his campaign was working with Russia to ensure that he won.

Trump supporters will deny this; they will claim that the Mueller report exonerates him. It does not. In fact, Mr. Mueller told Congress that he felt it was their job to bring charges against Trump, not his. The evidence was laid out for them.

There is also the fact that Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., admitted to meeting with a Russian operative. And there is a video of the former reality star asking Russian hackers to break into the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s email servers.

Time and again, Trump has told the world that he is corrupt, immoral, and a failure. Millions of people chose not to listen to what he was saying.