The GOP's been calling Obama liar for years, have to admit Trump's brought new meaning to the word

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By now, even Trump's supporters have to know the guy lies about everything.

I wonder, when they were screaming liar at Obama for years, were they accusing Obama of lying or were they begging for a liar in office?

So if you don't like liars, why do you accept Trump? And please, don't say "what lie"? This is serious.
 
It's indisputable that Obama is a liar.

It's also indisputable thar trump exaggerates.

Either way, a liar like you should love them both.
 
Bald-faced lies are the new reality under President Trump

Call them what you will — whoppers, untruths, lies — but casual falsehoods have been the hallmark of President Trump’s young political career.

The latest example came Saturday when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer berated journalists for “deliberately false reporting” on the underwhelming attendance for Trump's inauguration. Spicer’s error-ridden diatribe — on his first day in the taxpayer-funded job — came after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Washington, New York and elsewhere to protest Trump.

Such bald-faced deception is the new reality under the Trump administration. Whereas every President for the past century has attempted to mold public opinion by spinning information, taking messages directly to voters, and selectively curtailing press access, Trump obstructs a fact-based debate like none of his predecessors. With seemingly shameless fibs, big and small, the President and his aides have served to cast doubt on the very notion of objective truth
 
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The Trump Administration’s Lies Have Already Ruined Its Credibility

No less a figure than Spicer himself claimed to grasp this simple distinction when he spoke to students at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago just two weeks ago. “I’ve never lied,” he said, “and I’d argue that anyone who is an aspiring communicator adhere to that, because if you lose the respect and trust of the press corps, you’ve got nothing.”

This professional maxim is premised on the idea that the press has the institutional power and public trust to shape opinion, and thus the trajectory of campaigns and policy. There is another theory, by which the media’s credibility could be so damaged with a portion of the population that it functions as an inverse validator. If enough people believe the press has been corrupted in this way, officials can hold on to political power not just despite incessant lying, but through it as well.


Spicer can charitably be accused of having enough shame not to poison the idealism of college students, or of having a rapid change of heart, because his first official comments as President Donald Trump’s spokesman were in that second category: ludicrously false, ministry-of-propaganda style lies meant to discredit the national media, and convince Trump’s supporters that he’s more popular than he really is. He claimed not just that Trump’s “was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period—both in person and around the globe,”
 
Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain

Those who have followed Trump’s career say his lying isn’t just a tactic, but an ingrained habit. New York tabloid writers who covered Trump as a mogul on the rise in the 1980s and ’90s found him categorically different from the other self-promoting celebrities in just how often, and pointlessly, he would lie to them. In his own autobiography, Trump used the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” a term coined by his ghostwriter referring to the flagrant truth-stretching that Trump employed, over and over, to help close sales. Trump apparently loved the wording, and went on to adopt it as his own.
 
I'm glad you guys are finally concerned about the president lying.

Now if you just stop lying you might have some credibility when you call others out on it.

Get the beam out
 

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