On Friday, Sept. 16, Republican presidential nominee Trump acknowledged for the first time that President Obama was born in the United States, ending his 5-year history, upon which he built his political career, that of stoking the false, racist lie that the nation’s first African-American president was not born in the United States. Would you like to see what he said at his so-called press conference? Check out Seth Myer’s video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBhANSz--k.

Trump has effectively used conspiracy theories throughout his entire campaign to keep the media’s attention. His instinct for expediency led him to revive long discredited theories that Clinton White House official Vince Foster had been murdered and to speculate “some people say” that the father of his GOP primary opponent Senator Ted Cruz had somehow been mixed up in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Trump is not a lawyer and has not lived a life where precise thinking and presentation have ever been important. He more often than not starts at “some people say,” “there was something on the internet,” or, “I heard that.” Such an approach allows him the freedom to never take responsibility for his lies. One can only hope that at some point he recognizes the difference between right and wrong. The New York Times, like many in the main stream media, has finally had enough and has begun calling a lie a lie ( http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/insider/times-editor-dean-baquet-on-calling-out-donald-trumps-lies.html). The Guardian newspaper, which has been observing our election season for quite some time now reports: "Let’s just take a moment to consider this. A candidate whose first campaign ad was judged by one site to contain one lie every four seconds and who, according to Huffington Post, told over 70 lies in just one televised town hall; a man who one philosopher argues has 'perfected the outrageous untruth as a campaign tool,' is considered "more honest than his opponent." (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/hillary-clinton-women-trust?CMP=fb_us#link_time=1474585207).