Monday, Sept. 26, 2022 | 2 a.m.
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Before Donald Trump ran for president, he regularly claimed his business ventures were successful and that he was a billionaire. However, he seemed to resist, with great fervor, any objective review of his claims by refusing to provide the needed information to establish their truthfulness.
To enhance his image, Trump boasted about his intelligence, citing his attendance to a prestigious business school. But he was unwilling to share his grades with the public to show the real measure of his success there.
When Trump ran for president in 2016, he followed this pattern — claim anything that can advance his personal goals with no regard for truthfulness ; delay any truth-finding efforts about the claim; and erect legal barriers to hide the truth from the people.
Trump used that strategy to become president; however, it failed him when he ran for a second term, and it appears his claims have come under scrutiny by the public and the judicial system. As a result of this scrutiny, Trump was impeached twice and he’s being investigated in several cases for possibly breaking the law.
His strategy had fatal flaws: False claims will not and cannot become true ones later on, and the peddler of false claims eventually pays the full price for peddling them — a downfall.
Nearing the end, Trump’s strategy seems to accelerate the possibility of his downfall.
