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As so many people observed, in my previous post Donald Trump has a “Tell”, our resident Tweeter has another “tell” that is a sure-fire give-away, that what he just said, or is about to say: Is a Lie.
And the give-away that should set Reporter’s BS-Meters to “Full-tilt” pants-on-fire, is “Believe Me”.
Being the consummate conman, Trump has to add that “extra endorsement” (from himself) — whenever he knows the BS he’s shoveling, is just getting a little too deep, even for his band of loyal followers to just blindly believe. So he has to coax them into it.
Case in point, here the showman had to throw-in the “Tell” twice, because as most of us know now, the guy was lying BIG TIME … 4-alarm lying ...
“Believe me, there's no collusion,” Trump told reporters in the White House. “Russia is fine, but whether it’s Russia or anybody else, my total priority, believe me, is the United States of America.”
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“There is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself, and the Russians, zero,” Trump said.
— politico.com, May 18, 2017
In any normal world, other than “Fantasy Trumpworld”, this kind of bald-face Lying would require Mea-culpas, humble self-introspection, and public pleads for understand and forgiveness.
But “regret” is a word, and likely a state of mind, that has been banished from Trumpworld. That, and these simple declarative words “I was wrong” — must never be spoken — because “Believe Me”.
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They’re living the dream, which is rapidly turning into a global nightmare, for the simple fact that they doggedly refuse to acknowledge any Fact-based Reality. You know the place, most of us in the “normal world”, still work, live, and are just trying to survive — until the Trump-fantasy world is over — and “da Plane’’ comes to take them back to the Land of the Rich and Famous, from whence they came.
And that day can’t come soon enough.
Believe that!