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Why Is It So Hard To Call Out Trump On His Lies?
He lies all the time. Rat-a-tat. And if you do try to call him to account, that only produces more lies…
Some notes from Trump’s “Town Hall” appearance on ABC. Which served as kind of a prelude to upcoming debates. Joe Biden’s got a Town Hall on CNN on Thursday.
George Stephanopoulos does an admirable job as moderator, asking pointed follow-ups. So do the citizen questioners. The event also once again illustrates Trump’s extreme difficulty interacting on a human level with everyday people. When they’re not part of vast uniformly red-hatted crowds, kept at something of a distance, and assured of demonstrating their undying support. His obfuscations are less effective when it’s an actual person with an actual problem or concern to whom the President’s not giving a straight answer. Not really even listening, often. And even he knows he can’t respond by belittling them on the spot, which is generally his approach with reporters when they ask him questions, which seems to have become a game to him that he kind of likes.
Still, there are some obvious things Trump does again and again, and again and again gets away with. Mostly when he throws around numbers and percentages.
