There’s no doubt that Donald Trump is lying bout many things. It’s just his modus operandi.
But the press has no credibility with me because though they are mostly calling out Trump’s lies, they did nothing at all to call out other lies over the years like the laughable Laffer Curve, or the neolib idea that “free*” trade would be a boon for the nation, or the many corporate lies they peddle daily, and so many other similar neolib fabrications.
Yes, I know the press is and cannot be expert economists (of course, most economists aren’t expert economists) but calling out Trump’s lies is too little far too late.
The only reason of course the press has any interest in calling out Trumpian trumperies, tall tales and tergiversations is that Trump threatens them rather than enriches them (and their bosses).
Being a member of the national press now is an elite job, and Trump offends the elites in the press and also threatens their livelihoods. That’s the only reason you are hearing a word about it.
*By free, of course meaning trade that enriched a small subset of the population while diminishing the fortunes of nearly everyone else.
Yup, same as the reason Madoff is the only Wall Street operative who went to prison. Madoff made off with rich people’s money.
And named so perfectly, too. If this were not the real world, his appellation would be deemed unrealistic in a work of fiction. It’s as if Dickens somehow were regnant writer of real life now.