Donald Trump’s stealing of the truth will have widespread consequences - Yorkshire Post Letters
From: I L Richardson, Beverley.
Of all his many crimes, perhaps the most consequential of Donald Trump's is the stealing of truth. The deep irony of labelling his own social media platform, Truth Social, is especially heinous as it is a vehicle for consistently spreading falsehood.
Some of his lies define his very persona; the stolen election, "they are eating the pets," "I hardly knew Jeffrey Epstein," others accumulate like layers in a never-ending cake of deception.
Tragically, millions believe, or choose to believe, his lies; they fly around the world each day before the truth has got out of bed.
In his first term the Washington Post documented over 30,000 of his falsehoods, tellingly in his second that once august newspaper doesn't count them, as it is now owned by billionaire Trump supporter Jeff Bezoz, democracy is indeed dying in that darkness.
The overall purpose, as with many autocrats, is not merely to deceive on any given issue, tariffs, Iran, or healthcare, it is to muddy the waters so that it becomes impossible for many to distinguish between truth and lies.
When he has gone, the US has a long period of convalescence ahead, it won't recover until truth is rediscovered.