The first death has just occurred since Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and a Saudi major general stands to be accused as the mastermind, as objective reality gets another bit of Trump’s truthful hyperbole”. In the Trumpian mind, suspicious killing just happens, much like stuff falls off trucks. Whatcha Gonna Do?
Maggie Haberman does best when describing Trump’s resistance to reality, and does a good summary of the current state of Trumpian socio-pathology. More interesting will be whether Trump calls her “third-rate” as he has before, and as he just called Michael Avenatti a “third-rate lawyer”.
WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts. He disputes the existence of man-made climate change and insists that photographic evidence of the crowd at his inauguration is fake, part of a media plot to harm him.
Over the course of 21 months, President Trump has loudly and repeatedly refused to accept a number of seemingly agreed-upon facts, while insisting on the veracity of a variety of demonstrably false claims that happen to suit his political needs. In the process, he has untethered the White House from the burden of objective proof, creating a rich trove for professional fact-checkers, and raising questions about the basis for many of his decisions.
“If there’s no truth, how do we discuss and make decisions that are rooted in fact?” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican operative based in California. “It’s been abandoned. And it’s something that the Republican base certainly isn’t going to revolt on him on. But it is a huge fundamental problem of how to govern when there are no facts.”
Michael V. Hayden, a former C.I.A. director who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said that Mr. Trump could be coaxed into believing objective reality, but that it “is not the instinctive departure point for what Donald Trump does.”
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There’s no shortage of fall guys, even as most of the death squad seem to have been regular members of the MBS entourage.
There is an objective reality to be constructed and it will close in with verifiable veracity if #TrumpRussia wills out.
And even without #TrumpRussia, Lord Dampnut did feather his own nest, while in office: