President should man up and apologize to Obama

Be it the freakish wiretapping allegations against former U.S. president Barack Obama or the straight-up denial of his staff’s connections with Russia, Donald Trump has faced criticism from all corners for incessant lying and falsehoods. “I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier”. “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” wrote Trump in his fourth and final tweet that morning related to the allegations. The House would have voted on articles of impeachment within a week. On March 4, President Trump took to Twitter to voice his concerns over the matter.

In his signature book “The Art of the Deal”, published 30 years ago, Mr. Trump referred to his style as “truthful hyperbole”, an “innocent form of exaggeration-and a very effective form of promotion”.

“Maybe that’s the motivation at the beginning but at the end of the day, given the compliant nature of the foreign policy that Donald Trump was putting out in the course of the election, [they] favoured Trump and tried to do everything they could to ensure he could be elected”. It doesn’t bother his followers one bit.

But Nunes said Wednesday that Obama did not target Trump or Trump Tower with wiretaps. Other people smiled. And some people, the smart people or the people that know me didn’t laugh at all.

Pressed by Scherer about his campaign trail insinuation that Ted Cruz’s father was connected to Lee Harvey Oswald, Trump was characteristically unrepentant: “Why do you say that I have to apologize?”

He repeated a similar sentiment to Fox News in May 2016: “I would say that they’re better off without it, personally, but I’m not making that as a recommendation”.

It seems to me that Trump needs to be censured for his unproven attack on a former president and this should come from the U.S. Congress. “Trust me, I’m like a smart person”, he said in a speech to the Central Intelligence Agency after the election.

US President Donald Trump may be swimming in controversies, but according to him, it’s all okay because he’s president.

This recklessness is beginning – barely – to trouble some of his supporters.

Scherer brought up a Wall Street Journal editorial blasting Trump for “his endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods”. How does the president respond when asked about his inaccurate predictions, or his many public statements and pronouncements that have been debunked or proven false?

When asked if the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, Biden jokingly replied Obama had ordered wiretaps “five or six times“.

“If he doesn’t show more respect for the truth, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake president”, the editorial concluded.

Trump’s advisers and spokespeople may deny connections all day long, but they can’t escape Trump’s own words, including when he appeared to be cheering on then-alleged Russian hacking of Clinton-connected emails during the presidential campaign. Claiming so may be good enough for Trump and the pre-truth presidency he oversees.

Believe it or not, that’s still not the most surreal thing that happened this week. Jerry Brown, who stood next to him, should be careful about what he whispers to him. It turns out that I’m the one who’s prescient.

Or maybe her husband, Jared Kushner, born to a real estate mogul and a felon, who married well and dabbled in buying buildings and media properties. The global perception of American politics will dip even further if Trump employs social media platforms as his main means of communications.