By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 2, 2017
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'Trump and Putin: Two Liars Separated at Birth' was the title of a piece she wrote for Politico Magazine back on April 3, 2016 with a pulled-out quote: "No wonder they seem to like each other, they are akin in their abuse of the truth". "...Trump's lying is enabling and feeding an indifference to the truth," Farkas wrote. "In a March 28 speech, President Obama cited the work of Politico reporters who fact-checked 4.6 hours of Trump speeches and news conferences and identified more than 51 lies, or as David Brooks of The New York Times put it, "one every five minutes." This past week alone, Trump made false and irresponsible statements about the Geneva Conventions, nuclear proliferation, and NATO and our Asian allies' contribution to security. More recently he offered up a view of the U.S. economy that forecast a coming "very massive recession," which Washington Post writer Jim Tankersley called a mix of "economic conspiracy theories with magical-thinking accounting."
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"Despite such attempts at fact-checking, reporters just don't seem to know how to counter Trump's large-scale deployment of WMD-- Weapons of Mass Denial (of the truth). There are so many lies to dispute now, it seems an overwhelming task; where to start? Intentional or not, the end result is Trump's statements are not being sufficiently exposed as falsehoods. As with Putin in Russia, his many misrepresentations are enabling and feeding an indifference to the truth in this country. "Where could it end, if Trump does gain the presidency?"With people like you, Evelyn Farkas, that's what imperious people like you think. One would think that someone having advised three secretaries of defense on Russia policy during a 20-year-long government tenure, and a deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia in the Obama White House until 2015 would know that there are some things that just can't be walked back.
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