Commentary
According to The Washington Post, Donald Trump told 30,573 lies over the course of his four years in office.
CNN nutshelled it with “The 15 most notable lies of Donald Trump’s presidency.”
Of course, people have been calling politicians liars ever since Plato after the sophists for “making the stronger argument appear weaker and the weaker argument appear stronger.”
To a large extent, it’s a purely partisan issue.
Every Republican since before Ronald Reagan has been disparaged as “literally Hitler”; even the pathetic Grecian Formula BLM-marcher Mitt Romney was Hitler for bullying a kid in high school.
You can’t do a credible impersonation of the old Austrian housepainter without also being—or being accused of being—a liar, so all Republicans are also, ex officio, as it were, conspicuous liars….