Alle presidenter lyver til en viss grad. Det er dette som var nytt
Donald Trump did not merely lie to exaggerate his accomplishments, or smear his opponents(all presidents do that). For Trump and the Republican Party, lies were a loyalty test. To reject Trump’s lies or exaggerations, even if they contradicted prior assertions by the now-ex-president, was to express disloyalty, the only Trump-era sin that was unforgivable by his faithful. This allowed the president to fashion for his supporters alternate realities whose tenets could not be questioned, such as his false allegations of voter fraud.
Det er en av hovedgrunnene til at Jan. 6 skjedde.