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Denial is a river that runs through Donald Trump.
At Tuesday night’s town hall meeting, he denied that he played down the pandemic, saying, “in many ways I up-played it.”
But Bob Woodward has released an audio recording of him saying, literally, “I wanted to always play it down.”
Trump further denied that he said President Xi Jinping was “doing a good job” with the coronavirus. “I didn’t say one way or the other,” Trump claimed.
In fact, he said of China, in public, “I think they’re doing a very good job.” He also praised Xi as “extremely capable,” “strong, sharp and powerfully focused” on the virus and said “he’s handled it really well.”
At the gathering, hosted by ABC News, the president also denied that he referred to U.S. troops, in particular the late John McCain, as “losers.” Trump said “I never made those statements.”
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Lately, the tendency has become so frequent he seems to have taken up residency in a state of denial. During this campaign, his responses are reflexive: Deny virtually anything said about him and then accuse Joe Biden of something worse.
He denies trying to slow mail delivery after admitting he wanted to block funds to the post office to limit its ability to deliver ballots. He denies helping to get Kanye West on the ballot in key states. He denies that the late Herman Cain contracted covid-19 at Trump’s Tulsa rally. He denies he asked the U.S. ambassador to Britain to get the British Open for his golf course in Scotland. He denies tensions with Anthony Fauci. He denies being told about Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops. He denies the official pandemic death count. He denies he wanted his name on stimulus checks.
Over time, he has denied the big (no quid pro quo!) and the small (no bedbugs at Trump National Doral!), both high crimes (what Russian election help?) and low (what Stormy Daniels payments?). And on, and on.
After four years of a president denying the obvious, after 20,000 falsehoods, many of Trump’s remaining supporters clearly have also lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. After four more years, would we all lose it? The possibility cannot be denied.
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