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In the driver’s seat All the truth-defying gyrations of the Trump White House cannot erase the burden on congressional Republicans to provide something more tangible than tweets to voters struggling
Or, in the case of Reince Priebus, as The Washington Post reported, the president ordered his hapless chief of staff to come to the Oval Office to swat flies.
The cynical rationale had been that the Republican health care push was, in truth, a camouflaged tax cut for the affluent.
This, as much as ideology, explains the surprising rise of Bernie Sanders and the shocking presidency of Donald Trump.
If the White House has chosen to traffic in hyperbole and mendacity, then Congress must be the repository of truth.
No crystal ball The truth is — and I would wager that no one on television Thursday night will dare say this — that we don’t know if the 2017 special elections are predictors of larger political
Comey as FBI director revealed an enduring truth about the next four years — there will never be a normal day as long as Donald Trump is in the White House.
And the only time Trump used the companion word “deficit” was in relation to trade.
In truth, these fears are probably overrated.
Over the next two years, at least, the Kentucky Republican will be the most important force for “truth, justice and the American Way” in Washington.
But the abiding truth was that few of Tower’s former Democratic Senate colleagues liked him or were willing to break party lines to defend him.
In the eyes of his supporters, Trump had all the right enemies.
. … Doesn’t he tell his supporters to go vote for Trump at some point?”— Donald Trump, Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 3.
The undeniable truth is that Trump has already lost an election that a rational Republican might well have won.
Hillary Clinton: “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Donald Trump: “Because you’d be in jail.”
The unavoidable truth is that the idea of Gary Johnson remains far more appealing that the reality. This is — sadly enough for the nation — the most unequivocal “Which side are you on, boys?”
In fact, as The Washington Post reported, “Just before noon, it was 82 degrees and humid at ground zero, although it was probably a bit cooler when Clinton had left two hours earlier.”
[Manafort Resigns From Trump Campaign] For a candidate campaigning as a truth teller unbound by political correctness, Trump has consistently devalued the worth of the spoken word.
And then there was the critique that probably most rankled Trump, with his claims to dubious billions: “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.”
Telltale omission: Giuliani said nothing about Trump loving people from front to back.