Donald Trump’s long-tortured relationship with the truth is nearing a point of total estrangement. The Republican presidential candidate is out on the trail ahead of the general election in November. There isn’t space to mention most of Trump’s whoppers, so let’s take a simple category: those in which Trump debunks himself. The Republican presidential nominee tweeted over the weekend that rival Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats “are trying to rig the debates” by scheduling them during NFL games. Journalists hesitate to call these falsehoods “lies” because it’s hard to know whether ignorance or malice is to blame.

Source: Washington Post August 01, 2016 23:26 UTC