{"id":36428,"date":"2019-04-03T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36428"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:49:41","slug":"yep-trumps-lying-is-pathological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36428","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Trump’s lying is ‘pathological’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think it was one or more of his 2016 Republican Party presidential primary foes who called Donald Trump’s penchant for prevarication a “pathological” condition.<\/p>\n

That is, he can’t help himself. He has some sort of liar’s disease that guides him toward the telling of outright falsehoods, even when they serve no purpose — at all!<\/p>\n

Such as what transpired this week in an Oval Office meeting the Liar in Chief had with the NATO secretary-general.<\/p>\n

Trump went on a brief riff about how he gets along so well with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Then he blurted out something about his late father, Fred Trump, being born in Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hold on! He wasn’t born in Germany! He was born in 1905 — in New York City, New York, U.S.A.!<\/em><\/p>\n

We all looked it up. It’s right there, all over every Internet platform you can find. Just Google “Fred Trump” and it pops up. Place of birth: New York, New York.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, this is a little thing. It doesn’t matter all by itself. It’s just one of those examples Trump critics keep noticing, that he cannot tell the truth about anything. Not ever!<\/em><\/p>\n

So it’s fair to wonder: If he’s going to lie about something as inconsequential as that, what other truths is he keeping from the rest of the world?<\/p>\n

Hmm, I’m thinking . . . probably a lot!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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I think it was one or more of his 2016 Republican Party presidential primary foes who called Donald Trump’s penchant for prevarication a “pathological” condition. That is, he can’t help himself. He has some sort of liar’s disease that guides him toward the telling of outright falsehoods, even when they serve no purpose — at … Continue reading Yep, Trump’s lying is ‘pathological’<\/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":[13],"tags":[76,383,1424,8025,7525],"class_list":["post-36428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-gop-primary","tag-angela-merkel","tag-donald-trump","tag-fred-trump","tag-trumps-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428","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=36428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36429,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428\/revisions\/36429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}