Republicans know that President Trump is a pathological liar. It’s impossible to not be aware of that fact. Yet they continue to try and make excuses for his lies.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was on Morning Joe Thursday morning and he too was excusing the actions of Trump this week as he lied about a phone call he made to the family of a Green Beret who died in Niger. Cassidy compared Trump’s knowledge of governing to Eisenhower and FDR. That led co-host Mika Brzezinski to ask Cassidy:
“Senator, is it fair to say that the president has not told the truth at times on any level, on anything? I’m not trying to get into his head, I’m trying to get into yours and understand exactly where you are coming from. Has this president ever lied?”
Cassidy replied:
“This president speaks in hyperbole,. And hyperbole is interpreted by some as lies. And by the president, it’s interpreted as just his exaggeration. ‘The most beautiful in the world.’ Well, what’s the most beautiful in the world? That’s in the eye of the beholder. So, the president has a manner of speaking which is easily taken as a lie and the president would refute that.”
“I, frankly, don’t focus on that, Mika. I kind of look at the issue before us, what is the core? And if I get distracted by, ‘Well, is the hyperbole a lie or is it not a lie.'”
Hyperbole? Is that what we’re calling lies in the Age of Trump? A lie is a lie, no matter how you try to minimize or rename it. And that’s what Joe Scarborough let Cassidy know in no uncertain terms:
“You could smear spaghetti sauce and have 3 year olds do pictures in crayon with their feet, and if you told him it was a health care bill, he would say, ‘This is the most sweeping comprehensive health care bill of all time. I will sign it now.’
“It’s unbelievable that you had a comparison of Donald Trump to FDR, Donald Trump to Dwight Eisenhower and then a suggestion that Donald Trump just deals in hyperbole and we’re just to look the other way.”
Then, her voice dripping with sarcasm, Brzezinski cut Cassidy to shreds with this remark:
“That was a profile in courage.”
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