A Puzzle—or Is It?

   I keep up with the news, if mostly via the NYTimes website. What I get daily—often in several different postings—is a clear statement that what President Trump said or wrote is false. More often than not (mostly often) the article will plainly state that the President of the United States has told a lie.

   Well, that’s not news. Previous presidents have lied and previous presidents have certainly been accused of lying. But in those cases in the past, has the accused been so passive as our current president?

   I have seen “no denial,” no mea culpa, no reference of any kind on the part of Trump supporters or partisans to these pervasive accusations that their hero is a liar.

    What should one make of this?

   Puzzled, I came to a hesitant conclusion that the Trump partisans are fully aware that Trump lies routinely: how could they not be?  But, even if squeamish, they take those lies to be to a degree effective: so let them be.  Brrrrrr.