It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose, lies are his political "secret sauce"

[Beartracks]

7. I know good writing demands that you use synonyms instead of repeating a word, but...

... this one paragraph has "lies," "untruths," "misstatements," and "falsehoods" in it. They're all, in fact, "lies," but the other words -- "untruths," "misstatements," and "falsehoods" -- sound like mischief or accidents. They're lies. A little repetition wouldn't hurt:

History books will likely declare the last few months a turning point in the Trump Presidency, and Kessler’s laborious work gives us metrics that confirm what is becoming more and more apparent: the recent wave of LIES is both a reflection of Trump’s increasingly unbound Presidency and a signal attribute of it. The upsurge provides empirical evidence that Trump, in recent months, has felt more confident running his White House as he pleases, keeping his own counsel, and saying and doing what he wants when he wants to. The fact that Trump, while historically unpopular with the American public as a whole, has retained the loyalty of more than eighty per cent of Republicans—the group at which his lies seem to be aimed—means we are in for much more, as a midterm election approaches that may determine whether Trump is impeached by a newly Democratic Congress. At this point, the LIES are as much a part of his political identity as his floppy orange hair and the “Make America Great Again” slogan. The LIES, Kessler told me, are Trump’s political “secret sauce.”

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