WHEN THE TRUTH DOES NOT PLEASE TRUMP, HE JUST TELLS LIES!

…Donald Trump’s “Weapon of Choice”

 

Like a small child, Trump will just Tweet lies, when the truth doesn’t fit.

 

Well, once again Trump has shown that someone needs to take away his smart phone.

 

It is obvious that within the Trump camp, some people at the top are properly telling Trump that with Hillary winning the popular vote by over 2 million votes (so far), Trump does not have a mandate from the American people.  Yes, he won the electoral college, but he did not win America.  (FYI: No one has won that big of a popular vote plurality, without winning the election, for 140 years. That’s since 1876.  That means that Trump’s team members are correct.  Trump has received anything but a mandate from the American public.)

 

Of course, Trump’s response was to go “Tweet-crazy”, falsely Tweeting that there were millions of Americans that voted illegally.  As usual, there’s zero proof of any such kind of massive voter fraud.   Yes, there is a re-count happening in 3 states, paid for by the Green Party candidate, but little chance that it will have any major changes.

 

Trump actually had the gall to Tweet: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump’s ego inaccurately tweeted this last Sunday.

 

However, this tweet from Trump did pacify some far-right vocal conservatives that were disappointed that Trump had lost the popular vote, especially by so many votes.

 

All these lies could down the road, cause some problems for Trump’s nominee confirmations such as for Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) nomination for Attorney General.  Remember, Session has voted against the Voting Rights Act, and is against its renewal, and he is in support of all the voter ID laws that are targeted at minority voters.  By claiming all that false voter fraud, it just makes the public continue to doubt the election results.  That’s never good for any democracy and it causes problems within both of the major political parties.

 

And now there are  some other conflicts within the controlling Republican party.

 

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager and now a key adviser, led an attack on the 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney as the possible new US Secretary of State.  She argues that the former Massachusetts governor was so totally disloyal to Trump that he should not be considered for the position. These remarks seriously highlighted the fierce behind-the-scenes battle within the Trump camp.  Conway obviously feels Romney should not be offered the job as a healing gesture with the establishment GOP.  Word has it that she is instead in support of the Trump loyalists like former New York mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani.  But there are others in the group that feel that there are some former senators and military generals that should be considered for the position.

 

It is obvious how “big of a deal” this mandate issue is with Trump as in this one day, he Tweeted 10 separate Tweets dealing with not having a mandate from the American people.  It was so bad, Trump just had to once again spread a big lie saying that millions of people had voted fraudulently.

 

As usual, when Trump has to deal with the truth that is not to his advantage, he just lies about it.  For Trump, since he never says he is ever wrong, “problem solved”.

 

But my biggest issue is that as the CEO of Trump Industries, that’s possibly a workable way to do your business.  But as the Commander-in-Chief, or the most powerful man in the world, lying is not the way the American people want their leader to deal with the people’s business.

 

This administration is going to be very interesting to watch, but they could possibly be very dangerous for our democracy.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016