So what was the actual story here? Was it whether Obama wiretapped Trump? Or was it that Trump was wrong about this? Or was it that he made something up? Or was it that the current president of the United States has a flagrant disregard for the truth? Or is it that a president who has a flagrant disregard for the truth, and refuses even to correct the record when he is conclusively proved wrong, is unfit, to put it mildly, for the office of president?

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Should we pause and have a gentleman’s pro-and-con on that last question? Get real, please. There’s no way around it. You can say there is a sliding scale of acceptable fact-shading in politics, but this isn’t fact-shading. This is falsehood. This is falsehood on a monumental scale. This is repeated, consistent falsehoods, over and over, to the point where it is now expected. This is the president of the United States.

And so what is the plan here? To stand at the ready to chase down and extinguish the latest fire lit by a known serial arsonist? Hope that none of the fires does altogether too much damage? Get used to living in an ever-smoldering country where you can’t believe a single assertion or assurance from your chief executive?

Was his campaign colluding with the Russians to rob the election from Hillary Clinton? He says no. And does that give us helpful information? We’ll just have to wait and see! Maybe so, maybe no! And when he tells us who was behind a terrorist attack, and who we need to go to war with, will we believe him? Would he make a baseless accusation? He does all the time!