{"id":30276,"date":"2018-06-13T03:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T03:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30276"},"modified":"2018-06-13T03:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T03:14:49","slug":"are-we-witnessing-a-classic-liars-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30276","title":{"rendered":"Are we witnessing a classic liar’s contest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is known rather colloquially here in the States as the “Liar in Chief.”<\/p>\n

I have no idea what they call Kim Jong Un in his country, North Korea. Certainly nothing out loud, given the junior despot’s propensity for offing those who speak — or even think — ill of him.<\/p>\n

This much apparently has been established about Kim: He’s a liar. Maybe he’s even more adept at lying than Donald Trump, not that the president is any good at lying.<\/p>\n

Kim has made plenty of promises. And broken them. That makes him a liar. He comes from good lying stock, given what his father — Kim Jong Il — promised in 1994: He’d get rid of nuclear weapons; the elder Kim didn’t do what he said he would do.<\/p>\n

As for Trump, well, his lying has become legendary: He said he tracked down evidence that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii; he did nothing of the kind. He said he witnessed “thousands of Muslims” cheering the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9\/11; he lied there. Trump said President Obama ordered the bugging of his campaign offices in Trump Tower; another lie.<\/p>\n

He lies constantly. The question now becomes whether he knows he’s lying, whether he thinks<\/em> he’s telling the truth or whether he knows that we know<\/em> he’s lying, but doesn’t give a damn.<\/p>\n

Trump and Kim have looked each other in the eye. Trump made more promises than Kim did, or so it appears. How does Kim believe the president who I am sure he knows<\/em> is the pathological liar he has proven to be? For that matter, how does Trump trust Kim to keep his own word, given that he no doubt knows about Kim’s behavior?<\/p>\n

I am fond of referring to a “liar’s contest” involving two men who are prone to telling tall tales.<\/p>\n

Something tells me this newfound Donald Trump\/Kim Jong Un “friendship” is built on a body of lies.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is known rather colloquially here in the States as the “Liar in Chief.” I have no idea what they call Kim Jong Un in his country, North Korea. Certainly nothing out loud, given the junior despot’s propensity for offing those who speak — or even think — ill of him. This much … Continue reading Are we witnessing a classic liar’s contest?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2681,3335],"class_list":["post-30276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30278,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}