The NYTimes had an interesting piece yesterday about the rhetorical devices the former (and currently indicted and twice impeached) president uses to lie to the public.
The bullet points:
- He grossly distorts his opponents’ records and proposals to make them sound unreasonable.
- He exaggerates and twists the facts to make his record sound better than it is.
- He relies on both well-worn and fresh claims of election rigging to suggest he can lose only if his opponents cheat.
- He has turned his criminal cases into a rallying cry, baselessly asserting that he is being persecuted by his successor.
- He makes unverifiable claims about what the world would have been like had he secured a second term.
- He describes the United States as a nation in ruins.
Each is followed by a few examples of Trump's dishonesty.
