Does Trump Ever Tell the Truth?

There’s an op-ed in Mother Jones (thank you Steve K. for pointing this out) by David Corn who is very concerned about what he sees as a growing acceptance by the Fake News of Trump’s misdeeds because now that Mister Shithead is returning to the Oval Office, the liberal media doesn’t want to be left outside the door.

What I don’t think Corn understands is that what the Fake News is up against is a criminality of such extraordinary proportions that it has never previously existed in public life.

And when reporters and pundits have to talk about something for which there is no precedent nor anything which can be used as a basis for comparison, dealing objectively and honestly with such a situation becomes pretty tough.

When I first started being aware of politics, which was in the early 1960’s, the one political scandal that meant anything to me was Teapot Dome, This was a scandal which broke during the Harding Administration, and ended up with the Interior Secretary going to jail because he accepted bribes in return for dropping the prices of federal leases in Wyoming and California which the government was awarding for oil wells.

It’s not clear whether Harding himself knew anything about this situation and the companies which bribed the Interior Secretary, a guy named Albert Fall, were never charged.