Why Can’t Trump Just Tell Lies?

As far as I’m concerned, Joe Biden has cemented himself in the top rank of American Presidents not by what he has done legislatively over the past four years, but by his decision to step aside and allow Kamala Harris to run for the office of President in his place.

Because what Kamala represents is, for me, the culmination of two enormously meaningful shifts in American life, which has been the shift away from a society run at the top by white men and now a society whose leadership is both female and black.

Obama’s 2008 campaign got us halfway there, Kamala’s 2024 effort finishes the job. The problem, of course, is that someone’s trying to keep Kamala from getting to the finish line in first place, and that someone happens to be Donald Trump, who is today allegedly answering questions being asked by a panel at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, an appearance which sparked a significant debate within the organization it self as to whether or not Trump should have been allowed to show up and speak.

I only caught the last part of Trump’s performance, but what continues to impress me about him is how he so blithely and continuously makes statements which are completely and totally untrue. And when he’s confronted with the falsity of his remarks, he responds to such challenges by simply repeating the same erroneous…