Probably more pathetic than not hearing something is that GOP senators like David ‘Chicken’ Perdue and Tom ‘Lando’ Cotton would lie to protect Trump from calling an entire continent...
I don’t believe Trump intended to incite his followers to shoot Clinton, but that is exactly his problem, the one I have seen since I first started covering him three decades ago. He just says things. His tongue moves so fast, it’s out the door before he’s out of bed. He says what he hopes is true. He attributes his biggest whoppers to anonymous others whispering things in his ears that no one else hears. (Many people are saying an Iranian scientist was killed because of Clinton’s emails; some people say Barack Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery; many people say he should host Meet the Press; a lot of people say a book of the Bible whose name he flubbed is called Two Corinthians rather than Second Corinthians.) He blusters and fumes and attacks when people challenge his nonsense, and he doesn’t even try to sound credible. He has spent too much time in business blustering, bullying and lying, and he isn’t about to stop now.
Trump retweets this, thinking it exonerates him… misidentifying a source doesn’t discredit it, and actually strengthens the verification, because what the actual, relayed source showed was that the IC was doing its job…
Moments after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, unilaterally released the transcript, the inside-source story spread, especially in London. The city is home base of Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy who wrote the dossier.
In his testimony, Mr. Simpson told of Mr. Steele’s meeting with FBI agents in Rome in September 2016. Mr. Steele told Mother Jones magazine he was trying to jump-start an investigation into President Trump.
Mr. Simpson testified, “Essentially what he told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that — that they — my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.”
“It was someone like us who decided to pick up the phone and report something,” added Mr. Simpson, who said this person was not a Steele source, but an FBI one.
Barcelo and Capraro have devised an ingenious experiment that tempts people to lie and also gives them the opportunity lie in different ways that change the benefit to them.
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The researchers summarize their results by pointing out that all Turkers fall into three categories.
In the first are people who always tell the truth regardless of whether they are lucky or unlucky in their payoff. These are the good people and make up about 50 percent of us.
In the second are conditional liars who assess the payoff and lie if they are upset with the outcome. These are angry people and make up perhaps 35 percent.
In the final group are bad people. These are those who always lie to get the biggest payout for themselves. This group is made up of no more than about 15 percent of the total.