"The blizzard of falsehoods suggests that Trump anticipates Mueller’s testimony and its aftermath won’t be good for him," the piece notes, "so he’s doing his best to do some preemptive gaslighting."
Click through the Vox link to read more about his bold-faced lies. Anyone who has read the Mueller Report, or even just the coverage about it, should be able to see through the lies immediately.
Shortly after reading this article, I happened on this Hannah Arendt quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism which is particularly germane: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction ... and the distinction between true and false ... no longer exist."
I doubt Trump will ever achieve a totalitarian government in the United States. But he sure would like to, and with his constant lying, he has the requisite skill set.
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