When chronic lying is subjected to enough intense examination, it begins to shake apart like a flywheel with a bad part that’s being run way out beyond spec. More literally, this whitehouse.gov transcript demonstrates it to a T:
THE PRESIDENT: Look at the dedication. Yeah, my doctors have already given it. You know, my doctors have given more information than has been given on any human being in the history of the world.
Q But have not given that detail, Mr. President.
Q Mr. President, can you tell us why — what your campaign strategy seems to be to call Biden a “criminal”? Why is that?
THE PRESIDENT: He is a criminal. He’s a criminal. He got caught —
Q He was the Vice President of the United States.
THE PRESIDENT: Read his laptop. And you know who’s a criminal? You’re a criminal for not reporting it. You are a criminal for not reporting it.
Q I’m asking your strategy.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me tell you something: Joe Biden is a criminal, and he’s been a criminal for a long time. And you’re a criminal, and the media, for not reporting it. Good luck, everybody. Have a good time. Have a good time.
He references no crime, he references no evidence. What little “evidence” has been presented by his allies appears extremely improbable and dubious. So he tries to skip over that part and accuse the media of being criminal as well.
And then, true to his transactional nature, he wishes that same media a good time.
This is a guy who’s discovering that chronic lying is falling apart in the face of determined fact-finding and reporting. For a man who has more or less successfully employed this strategy for most of this 70-odd years, this must be dismaying. But it’s all he knows, so he flails along, discrediting himself more and more.
