Truth, lies, and Trump

The most surprising thing about the Trump-Comey dinner was that the former FBI chief actually blew the whistle.

Then-FBI director James Comey, alongside then-deputy attorney general Sally Yates, addressing the media after the Orlando nightclub shooting last year. U.S. President Donald Trump fired both officials, and Mr. Comey has said he had refused a request from the president to pledge loyalty to him. Photograph by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

June 14, 2017

As we hit peak tactical fake news this week, with an entirely plausible but false Time magazine cover on Donald Trump headlined “Liar in Chief” being shot down as a hoax, let’s look at the truth about the liar in chief from a less fake source. In an era when Trump’s lies go all th...

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