Pelosi graphically objected to Trump’s litany of lies

GOOD FOR you, Nancy Pelosi! The media has endlessly re-played video of the speaker of the House ripping up her transcript of the president’s speech following the 2020 State of the Union address.

Finally, someone has graphically, publicly objected to the president’s endless falsehoods. According to fact checkers, POTUS’ carefully crafted, spectacle-heavy speech contained false statements about everything from Social Security to oil and gas production.

But that’s par for the course for the former TV (reality) show host. When recently checked, Trump’s running total of falsehoods averaged about 14.8 per day, or over 16,500 lies so far as president.

I don’t know about you, but I grew up with parents who gave me what-for if they caught me in a lie. Not Trump. Instead of what-for, his very wealthy father gave him $140 million to set up as a businessman. Even with that nest egg, trouble started early. If you look up “Veracity of Statements by Donald Trump” ... you’ll find a detailed account of a long lifetime of lies.

Dr. Robert Prentice, a professor of business law at the University of Texas ... reviewed the findings of nonpartisan fact-checkers regarding the 2016 Clinton vs. Trump election. “Here’s the problem: ... whereas Clinton lies as much as the average politician, President Donald Trump’s lying is “off the charts.’” No prominent politician in memory bests Trump for spouting spectacular, egregious, easily disproved lies. Every fact checker— Kessler, Factcheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact — finds a level of mendacity unequaled by any politician ever scrutinized.

Speaker Pelosi’s action — “He shredded the truth so I shredded his speech.” — was particularly welcome after watching the Senate’s spineless Republicans, many of whom admitted publicly that the president was guilty of both articles of impeachment, vote to put Trump above the rule of law and stupidly vote to destroy their own power to keep despots in check.

LAURA F. SANCHEZ Los Lunas