Opinion: Trump's latest tweetstorm is worse than it appears
Published on April 02, 2018 at 04:45PM by Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
President Donald Trump lies with such frequency, and his ignorance of policy basics is so omnipresent, that it's often easy to allow the superficial absurdity of his statements to distract us from the actual underlying point he's making. In some cases, that underlying point is more reprehensible than the surface falsehoods he employed to convey it. Case in point: Monday morning, Trump uncorked a tweetstorm about "caravans" of people making their way north through Mexico toward the southern border, adding that they want to take advantage of the protections enjoyed by the "dreamers.
Published on April 02, 2018 at 04:45PM by Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
President Donald Trump lies with such frequency, and his ignorance of policy basics is so omnipresent, that it's often easy to allow the superficial absurdity of his statements to distract us from the actual underlying point he's making. In some cases, that underlying point is more reprehensible than the surface falsehoods he employed to convey it. Case in point: Monday morning, Trump uncorked a tweetstorm about "caravans" of people making their way north through Mexico toward the southern border, adding that they want to take advantage of the protections enjoyed by the "dreamers.
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