At this point, is this news ? Though it highlights Trump’s politics.

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    Public lie, spread by a public figure, with an intention to mislead the public, should be a criminal offence.

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      Even if it was, presidents are now immune from criminal charges, and he is set to begin his next term in just a couple weeks, so not likely that anything could stop him from continuing to do this without sweeping reform of the office of president.

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      Nope, best I can do is “falsely suggested” and a sense of legitimacy imbued by constant media coverage of his self-serving asshole behavior

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    To Trump and most of his followers, anyone with a non-Western-European name or isn’t Christian is an “immigrant”. Doesn’t matter if their families have been in the country for a hundred years.

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    Yes, it is news. We’re tired of hearing about his lying but, unlike when he was given a huge platform in 2016, now that he’s holding office we don’t get to ignore it. I’m Canadian but even here the power he is wielding and the way it influences our conservatives means even I have to keep up with this bullshit.

    He’s going to lie anyway and there will be people who hear him do it so everyone else needs to know ahead of dealing with those idiots that he’s definitely lying.