Trump Denies America Three Times

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The internet is the lying capital of the world because there’s no perjury. The world? You know what I mean: the world online, as in the air. What is perjury? I’m no lawyer, so allow me to borrow this definition: “The offense of willfully telling an untruth in court after taking an oath or affirmation.” 

What is an untruth? It’s the absence of truth. Excuse my English, but it is lying. The internet is the lying capital of the world because we don’t raise our hands and take an oath. We just say this pavlova was my mother’s recipe, when in actual fact, we stole it from Russian or Ukrainian cooking sites. Mothers in their graves have a problem with that. They cannot believe that their good-for-nothing children can stoop that low, live an ‘untruth’ and attribute it to them.

We lie online because we get away with it most of the time, not like politicians. Example. Donald Trump, the man who wants to be king, went to the Bronx last week to drum up support for himself, not the Republican Party. Apparently, he told an ‘untruth’ about the number of  people who showed up to listen to him. Fact-checkers did the math, backed it up with photos and exposed him.

Donald Trump is proud to be the master of ‘untruth.’ That’s why he displays it on his balcony, called Truth Social. As for oaths, he’s not particularly fond of them. He makes them with cameras wide open, then denies them.

His lawyers told the Colorado state Supreme Court that he did not take an oath to support the Constitution. “Section 3 does not apply, because the presidency is not an office ‘under the United States,’ the president is not an ‘officer of the United States’ and President Trump did not take an oath to ‘support the Constitution of the United States.”

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