Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Fayetteville, N.C., Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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"Lyin' Ted He is the single biggest liar," screams Donald Trump about Sen. Ted Cruz.

The man who declares "I'm my primary consultant" needs but look in a mirror to see who supercedes Cruz.

"He speaks his mind" extol Trump's supporters. Trouble is, the mind Trump consults does not differentiate fact from falsehood.

PolitiFact finds 76 percent of his blunderbuss through March 2016 is mostly false, false, pants-on-fire lies. Analyzing 4.6 hours of his speeches, Politico discovers he lies, on average, once every five minutes.

Trump lies. Overtly. Relentlessly. Pathologically. It trumps even this egoistic narcissist's notorious peevish petulance.

Trump "tells it like it is," Trumpsters proclaim. Really? They say "truth matters." It does. They inveigh that Obama subjugates Congress and the Constitution, yet ignore Trump's not-so-veiled innuendo - "I don't care about the rules" - that he will do likewise as president. They call Hillary Clinton "untrustworthy." And Trump?

Is there not incongruity and hypocrisy here?

Mendacity is Donald Trump's modus operandi, politically. It has worked for him thus far, yugely. There is no realistic reason to think this will change should he become President.

However, lies from the White House are dangerous. They destabilize perilous international relations. They launch wars.

LARRY E. ARNOLD, Susquehanna Twp.