Donald J. Trump’s evasive tactics have become legendary during his brief career as a politician.

The more I think about it, I am inclined to presume he honed those evasion skills back when he sought to evade military service during the Vietnam War; he found a way to forgo service by getting a doc to prescribe “bone spurs.”

But now the president of the United States is facing another set of assertions that he will have to explain … if he is unable to evade any accountability.

Advisers told him, it has been reported, as early as late 2019 about the potential for a deadly viral pandemic. He shrugged it off, The New York Times is reporting. More warnings came forward in early 2020. Trump continued to ignore them.

Then he told the nation repeatedly that the coronavirus was “under control.” He told us it would disappear “miraculously” when the temperature warmed up. Nothing to worry about … he said.

Now he is saying he called it a pandemic before anyone else knew what it was.

How does this clown get away with this lying? How do his fanatic followers continue to believe these denials, how do they reject the statements of supposedly trusted Trump advisers that the nation is facing a deadly peril?

I cannot yet grasp how this individual is able to wiggle his way out of such predicaments. To be brutally candid, it is an extraordinary trait I never have witnessed in an American politician.

The casualty count continues to mount. The doctors, scientists and even some top political advisers tell us there was much more that could have been done to avoid such carnage … and that Donald Trump failed to act.

How will this guy explain it away? More to the point, how will so many Americans continue to believe him?