IF YOU CATCH A SECOND-HAND SALESMAN LYING ABOUT THE MILEAGE OF A CAR, WOULD YOU BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE HE SAYS ABOUT THE CAR?

Responses to Donald Trump: Four years, 25,000 lies later!

Tellingly, none of the comments critical of the article even attempt to deny that Trump lies. A lot. Some of his tales are of the type that his book Art of the Deal called “truthful hyperbole”, the type all politicians indulge in. However, a vast number of his lies are so easy to disprove that the fact he tells them over and over, showing his disrespect for everybody else, including his diehard supporters. He says over and over that his father was born in Germany, which he was not. In the bigger scheme of things this seems unimportant, but it shows how untouchable he regards himself. There’s Mexico that paid for the wall, the Coronavirus

pandemic has turned a corner, his administration “inherited a broken test” for Covid-19, he suggested Ted Cruz’s father was connected with the assassination of JFK, he repeatedly lies about why he has not released his tax returns ... the list goes on and on. Only the most uninformed of Trump supporters deny that he lies a lot ... If you catch a second-hand salesman lying about the mileage of a car, would you believe anything else that he says about the car? Dries van der Colff

The venom which you spew may well blow up in your face! Your opening statement in fact says it all. You are so consumed by hatred for the man that facts fly out of the window. I dispute your Rep/Dem voting statistics and you omitted to say that unemployment figures recently released are the lowest in many years. Brian Townsend

Saying “when” shows you believe Trump will win... and granted, it’s not entirely impossible. We saw that four years ago. Let’s hope he doesn’t.

Human beings need hope as much as we need air, water, food and shelter. If Trump wins again it will merely be one more piece of evidence that even completely false hope (of the same type as peddled by rabbis, priests, pastors and imams; in other words, hope based on fantasy, lies, make believe and blatant fraud) is good enough. Jacobus Strydom