Also “greatly reducing our federal deficit”. I don’t think he’s a liar so much as a bullshitter. He just doesn’t care what the truth is. Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit is a useful guide for these times.
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“When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false.”
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“His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are … He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
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