Lies and untruths Trump all Donald’s other misdeeds

Donald Trump lied. The man who holds the most powerful office in the world has within nine weeks of his presidency turned what was once a respected nation into a laughing stock and there is nothing America can or seems prepared to do. Don’t just take my word for it, take the FBI’S. On Monday, along with the country’s National Security Agency, America’s top two intelligence agencies called him out for his lies that Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower. Between FBI director James Comey and NSA chief Admiral Mike Rogers, their denouncement of Trump’s astonishing Twitter accusations against his predecessor was explicit. Even more clear-cut was their response to his White House claims that British spies carried out the wiretap to avoid any “American fingerprints on it”. Comey and Rogers agreed while appearing before the House Intelligence Committee, with the UK government’s response that Trump’s claims were “utterly ridiculous”. Trump’s offence has caused huge embarrassment on both sides of the political divide who now openly express their disgust for his attack on “America’s greatest ally”. But was there any apology from the President or admission he got it wrong? Far from it. Meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, another ally he’s alienating, Trump insisted there was nothing to be sorry for. He said: “All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind,” a commentator on Fox News. Was anyone surprised? Not at all. Little more than 60 days into his time in the Oval Office it has become the norm in America and more fool them for accepting his lies. His lies have led to the FBI not only calling Trump a liar but to carry out a probe into his election campaign to see if “any crimes” were committed over its links to Russia. Unsurprisingly his Republican party has been keen to shift the interest away from the President instead trying to paint those who leaked the information of Moscow meddling as the real villains. If they’d have been around during the Nixon era, they’d have said the whistleblower Deep Throat was the real scandal not Watergate itself. It is like Trump is running around with a box of matches as the White House burns and his party are demanding to know who called in the fire brigade. The President’s pathological inability to accept responsibility is just the culmination of a trend. American politics is suffering from an epidemic of powerful people who never, ever admit to making a mistake. In the President’s mind nothing he does or says is wrong, whether it’s his false claim that he won the popular vote or his assertion the historically low murder rate is at a record high. No error is ever admitted. And there is never anything to apologise for. He lies in ways that no American politician ever has before. Whether it be about JFK’S assassination, Obama’s birthplace, America’s allies, 9/11, ISIS, the Iraq War, voter fraud, groping women, creating jobs, the border wall, unemployment, immigration or charitable donations, he has fibbed without redress about them all. Alternative facts, some may argue. Even God is not immune. Trump said the Almighty made the rain stop at his inauguration when he spoke “and then it became really sunny”. I should know it rained on me throughout. His untruths rank as an American pastime alongside baseball. But all jokes aside, the world’s most powerful man is a liar. The States cannot hesitate any longer to find how serious his latest untruths are or when real trouble arises it will not just be America’s future at stake.