.MaddowBlog: Trump took two lies — his absurd claims about Team Clinton spying on him and his nonsense about his 2020 defeat — and tried to combine them.
One of Donald Trump’s more exasperating habits is his embrace of lie inflation. That doesn’t refer to lies about inflation, but rather, refers to the former president telling a regular lie, and then inflating the falsehood in ways that make it worse.lie about his approval ratingThe practice came to mind again this week. The Republican’s initial lie came several days ago, when he insisted that there’s new evidence that he’d been “spied on” by Hillary Clinton’s operatives.
that claimed Clinton broke into the White House and his apartment. That’s utterly bonkers, though it’s consistent with his equally nutty habit of expanding lies in outlandish ways.“Much of the now-uncovered espionage campaign of the Democrats breaking into the White House and my New York City apartment, took place after the 2016 Election as yet another way to undermine the upcoming 2020 Election.
Obviously, there were no factual claims in this statement. There was no espionage campaign; no one broke into the White House; no one broke into his apartment; there was no Democratic spying in the Oval Office; the non-existent espionage didn’t continue for a long time; the 2020 presidential election wasn’t a “sham”; and on and on.
What amazed me about this bizarre hysteria, however, is Trump’s eagerness to take lie inflation to a new level: He took two lies — his absurd claims about Team Clinton spying on him and his dangerous nonsense about his 2020 defeat — and tried to combine them., which in turn helps “discredit” the election he lost.
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