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False-Accuser-in-Chief
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
FEB 10, 2018
... most agree that carelessly or falsely accusing someone of serious misbehavior in public is wrongheaded and deeply irresponsible.
But how is it that so many people who purport to hold those common-sense convictions support one of the most frequent perpetrators of false and irresponsible accusations in America? ...
Trump falsely accused Barack Obama of forging his own birth certificate and thus perpetrating an election fraud en route to his successful 2008 run for the presidency.
Trump falsely claimed that thousands of Arabs were cheering the 9/11 attacks on the streets of New Jersey ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-false-accuser-in-chief/553025/