Trump’s Latest Briefing Was an Avalanche of Dishonesty. ESQUIRE.

It's Still News When the President Wages a 40-Minute Assault on Reality During a briefing Monday night, the president lied about mail-in ballots in Virginia, about Russian interference in the coming election, about foreign countries messing with mail-in ballots, about mail-in voting in New York, about whether the novel coronavirus spread in China, about tariffs, about how testing creates cases (again), about the stockpile of ventilators he inherited, about how the Obama administration "spied" on him. The chance to spout the last one was served up by a good friend from OAN, the network for people who think Fox News is insufficiently loyal to the president (a group which sometimes includes the president), who began her query—which she called an "opinion" question—by essentially asking the president whether it was difficult to be so victimized by very nasty people. This kind of Dear Leader vaudeville has become commonplace in the American republic. But the real peach arrived in a discussion of pre-existing conditions. Politics Editor Jack Holmes unpacks Trumps’ avalanche of dishonesty. Read More