Forbes: We Will Assume That Any Company Hiring a Trump Spokesperson Is Lying In Anything Reported.
This article is written by the Chief Content Editor of the business magazine Forbes, Randall Lane:
A Truth Reckoning: Why Were Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable
Forbes will assume that any business that hires these people is engaged in fraud and lying.
An excerpt:
Yesterdays insurrection was rooted in lies. That a fair election was stolen. That a significant defeat was actually a landslide victory. That the worlds oldest democracy, ingeniously insulated via autonomous state voting regimens, is a rigged system. Such lies-upon-lies, repeated frequently and fervently, provided the kindling, the spark, the gasoline.
That Donald Trump devolved from commander-in-chief to liar-in-chief didnt surprise Forbes: As weve chronicled early and often, for all his billions and Barnum-like abilities, hes been shamelessly exaggerating and prevaricating to our faces for almost four decades. More astonishing: the number of people willing to lend credence to that obvious mendacity on his behalf.
In this time of transition and pain reinvigorating democracy requires a reckoning. A truth reckoning. Starting with the people paid by the People to inform the People.
As someone in the business of facts, its been especially painful to watch President Trumps press secretaries debase themselves. Yes, as with their political bosses, spins and omissions and exaggerations are part of the game. But ultimately in PR, core credibility is the coin of the realm.
From Day One at the Trump White House, up has been down, yes has been no, failure has been success. Sean Spicer set the tone with the inauguration crowd size the worst kind of whopper, as it demanded that people disbelieve their own eyes. The next day, Kellyanne Conway defended Spicers lie with a new term, alternative facts. Spicers successor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied at scale, from smearing those who accused Trump of sexual harassment to conjuring jobs statistics. Her successor, Stephanie Grisham, over the course of a year, never even held a press conference, though the BS continued unabated across friendly outlets. And finally, Kayleigh McEnany, Harvard Law graduate, a propaganda prodigy at 32 who makes smiling falsehood an art form...