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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Surely you didn't mean there is no precedent for a President telling untruth, so your issue isn't the lie, it is the amount of time spent on the lie?

Can you explain how Nixon and LBJ cannot be viewed as a precedent?

Surely you read the acknowledgement that " Every president has shaded the truth or told occasional whoppers."

Duplicity isn't unusual among politicians and a degree of self-delusion is common among people of power. But, Trump exceeds even Nixon and LBJ in the frequency and pervasiveness of lies. Nixon was able to dissemble because he knew when he was lying and when he wasn't. Trump doesn't seem to know the difference. For him, adherence to objective truth is irrelevant. All that matters is winning.