Lying took down Flynn, but it seems to be just fine on the Sunday talk shows - By Margaret Sullivan
By Margaret Sullivan Media Columnist February 14 at 11:30 AM
Strange, isn’t it, that it was a lie that supposedly caused Gen. Michael Flynn to be fired? His false assurances to Vice President Pence about pre-election conversations with Russia were what evidently did him in as national security adviser.
If lies were always taken that seriously in the Trump administration, we might be living on the right side of the looking glass. But they aren’t. And we aren’t. Consider, for example, the way the consistently truth-challenged President Trump applauded a top adviser last weekend after he went on national talk shows and told brash falsehoods.
“Congratulations Stephen Miller — on representing me this morning on the various Sunday morning shows. Great job!” went the Trump tweet (bringing to mind the presidential praise after Hurricane Katrina to the hapless Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown: “You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie”). What had Miller done to deserve the presidential attaboy? Well, among other things, the 31-year-old White House wunderkind had:
●Repeated, forcefully and with great conviction, evidence-free claims that there is widespread voter fraud in the United States. (Simply: There isn’t.)
●Insisted that the federal courts had no legitimate role in Trump’s executive order on immigration.
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