{"id":131175,"date":"2016-08-01T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/the-casual-mendacity-of-donald-trump.html"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:42:02","slug":"the-casual-mendacity-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/the-casual-mendacity-of-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"The casual mendacity of Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s not that big a thing, to be honest, but it speaks volumes about the mind of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>1. It&#39;s not enough for Trump to object to the debate schedule, he has to lie about getting a letter from the NFL complaining about it. Why? Because it makes him look like a big shot, I guess. And if the NFL denies sending a letter? None of his supporters will think a thing about it.<\/p>\n<p>2. It&#39;s not enough for Trump to object to the debate schedule. While confessing he has no idea how the schedule is set, he&#39;s more than happy to speculate it&#39;s all some vast Clintonian conspiracy to somehow magically manipulate the debates against him. And if the dates were actually set by an independent commission close to a year ago, well before the NFL game schedule was set (and independent of it)? None of his supporters will think a thing about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s not just the pettiness, it&#39;s the need to lie about it for self-aggrandizing and publicity-grabbing reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/caught-fib-trump-hedges-debate-schedule'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/SsyBUAqwgBZcozH5dE0jpMzos9O0dMepk81ykuOmNAqOnb0CoGTk-MtbTyHgckOXnzbNfffUG86DkYzXX_Vc5FMYVc2ks7qzoJOhR2LqbzsoBsfgVF8jM1osvfUL6Di4DsYBo9bmaWQPstsLIX2cWPV1LmU8H0ZwmKo_56usEuY0=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/caught-fib-trump-hedges-debate-schedule'>Caught in a fib, Trump hedges on debate schedule<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAfter claiming to have a received a letter from the NFL &#8211; a letter that does not exist &#8211; it&#8217;s unclear if Trump will debate Clinton this fall.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/G7V694DNTEE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s not that big a thing, to be honest, but it speaks volumes about the mind of Donald Trump. 1. It&#39;s not enough for Trump to object to the debate schedule, he has to lie about getting a letter from the NFL complaining about it. Why? Because it makes him look like a big shot, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/01\/the-casual-mendacity-of-donald-trump.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The casual mendacity of Donald Trump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132167,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-06-air-force-none.html","url_meta":{"origin":131175,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2016-12-06 &quot;Air Force None&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Dec-16 9:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has called for a cancellation of the current Air Force One program with Boeing.Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. 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