Most people, even in politics, are too decent to lie as he did. but he benefited from the health lie

[Demovictory9]

If elected, he concluded, “Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

The statement triggered suspicion at the time. That isn’t how doctors speak. And how could any doctor accurately identify the healthiest person ever elected president? The letter sounded like the sort of thing that a hack propagandist would write. And Trump would go on to make Hillary Clinton’s health a campaign issue.


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During his rise, Trump put the press and the public in an impossible position by lying in a manner that was both flagrantly obvious to anyone paying close attention and often impossible for news organizations to prove as a settled matter of fact. Most people, even in politics, are too decent to lie as he did. They possess normal consciences and senses of shame. Trump was willing to exploit the fact that humans extend some general presumptions of trust to function in this world. Like a con man, he benefitted by betraying that trust more shamelessly than others.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/revisiting-a-brazen-effective-lie/559433/

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1. "'like' a con man?"

[procon]

2. I hate to say this, but given the blind cult of personality that props him up,

Trump would have been elected regardless of his bad health. The projection is obvious now, the way he attacked Clinton's health and mocked her for every sneeze and cough, loudly predicting that she was at death's door is even more despicable.

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3. And they let him get away with it

Meanwhile: