Why Do They Lie So Much?

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People wonder out loud why the Trump administration would lie to us so frequently and so egregiously when the truth is so obvious. Just in the past few days:

— Cosplay Kristi claiming that Senator Padilla was “lunging” at her.
— JD Vance proclaiming that Los Angeles is filled with “rioters egged on by the governor and the mayor.”
— DNI Director Gabbard telling Congress under oath that the intelligence community does not believe Iran is building a nuke, then saying the opposite to the public on social media.
— Republican congresspeople and the Speaker of the House repeatedly promising that their billionaire-tax-cut legislation won’t cut Medicaid as they revive Reagan’s lie that tax cuts for the morbidly rich will help out average working people.
— Stephen Miller’s wife claiming that “The number [of fraudulent Social Security claims] is 40 percent” when in fact it’s so small as to be functionally meaningless.
— Trump attacked Iran despite that country posing no threat to the US whatsoever.
— ICE claiming the father of three Marines that they beat to the ground and pounded on was trying to attack them with a Weedwhacker, when in fact video shows no such thing.

The dirty little secret about fascism, authoritarianism, or whatever else you want to call the form of government Trump’s trying to impose on the United States is that it’s not even remotely legitimate governance on behalf of We the People but instead is merely a setup to steal everything that’s not nailed down.

Trump himself, after all, has already made at least a billion dollars off his presidency in just the first five months, his son Barron just made at least $40 million, and his other sons are cashing in on deals with foreign governments that run into the billions. It’s a haul worthy of Midas — or Putin.

Experts estimate that between 15 and 30 percent of the entire GDP of countries currently under authoritarian rule like Russia and Hungary is being skimmed off the top for the benefit of the leaders and their morbidly rich friends. The Nazis famously looted the wealth of Jewish and “socialist” families and businesses and transferred that wealth to Hitler’s friends, as did Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet, and Suharto back in the day, and el Sisi, Erdoğon, Khamenei, Mbasogo, Aliyev, etc. in modern times.

This is the model that Trump and the people surrounding him are following.

It goes by many names, as mentioned: fascism, authoritarianism, autocracy, oligarchy, etc. But at their core, all are simply modern reinventions of the old reign of warlord kings, where the people who hold the power use that power to enrich themselves while keeping everybody else poor.

hartmannreport.com - Trumps empire of lies and loot

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