Trump’s lies are abundant

By Tom Harper, Henderson

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 | 2 a.m.

I was appalled by the Oct. 21 letter headlined “Understanding Donald Trump” and attacking Brian Greenspun’s Oct. 15 column.

The writer of the letter claimed Greenspun lacked any specificity and offered no examples to his point that “Americans don’t want their presidents to lie constantly to the people.”

Please! Let me elaborate on Trump’s deceit and the dangers it poses to our democracy.

On Sept. 25, 2016, Politico reported that Trump “averaged about one falsehood every three minutes and fifteen seconds over nearly five hours of remarks” during the previous week on the campaign trail.

Based on my math, that’s more than 15 lies per hour. Those lies continued after Trump was elected, including falsehoods that he won the popular vote, that President Barack Obama bugged the Trump Tower and that Paul Manafort played a small role in Trump’s campaign.

Should this pathological lying be of concern to Americans when even now John Kelly, who was suppose to be the “firewall of honor” for Trump, has told lies concerning “Gold Star” soldiers and Trump has shown an affinity and/or tolerance of neo-Nazis and white supremacists?

The writer of the letter further states that Greenspun fails to “understand who Trump is and what he stands for.” Based on Trump’s propensity for deceit it is obvious that he stands neither for honor nor integrity.

Ted Kennedy said it best: “Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is the poison in its veins.”