It's titled "Mendacity," by which he means, of course, the mendacity of Senate Republicans, which is contrasted with his own alleged honesty in a book that's titled A Time for Truth.
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That may justify care and caution; it doesn't justify mendacity.
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"The mendacity comes through on every page," he told me.
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Besides, the mendacity, the grandiosity: That's just Trump being Trump.
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She's under no illusions about the fundamental mendacity of men.
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Scrolling turns the wall into a wave, a tsunami of mendacity.
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"We live in an age of mendacity and criminality," West said.
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He admires strongmen, like Vladimir Putin, despite their brutality and mendacity.
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This is the madness, fear-mongering and mendacity that must end.
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Equally disheartening is his team's willingness to share in his mendacity.
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I haven't heard mendacity since I saw a Tennessee Williams play.
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Assad's mendacity should now lead scholars and policymakers to reassess such claims.
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As for the public discourse, it is almost completely corrupted by mendacity.
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Tehran's mendacity harbors practical implications for enforcement of the 2015 nuclear deal.
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He sees the institutions of government as webs of hypocrisy and mendacity.
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The pursuit of facts has been replaced by the broadcasts of mendacity.
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Beyond the mendacity, Trump has revealed a persistent strain of hair-trigger nastiness.
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He will see Clinton's charges of mendacity with accusations that she is untrustworthy.
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All his flaws were on display: the racism, the sexism, the nastiness, the mendacity.
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If you can look past all the venality and mendacity involved, it's almost poignant.
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Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life?
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The internet contributed to the culture of mendacity in a fight between nuclear neighbors.
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In post-Soviet Russia, the same cynical mendacity has become the Putin government's hallmark.
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But even darker shadows than mendacity, shamelessness and fiscal populism now hang over Johnson's campaign.
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Regulatory excesses and well-intentioned mistakes are one thing – dishonesty and mendacity are something else.
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Another illuminates the foul mash of mendacity and paranoia at the core of Donald Trump.
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His instruments are resentment, sarcasm, unbounded insult, casual mendacity, and the swaggering assertion of dominance.
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There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity[corruption]... You can smell it.
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In India, Pakistan and everywhere else, addressing digital mendacity will require a complete social overhaul.
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Iran's mendacity is no longer the informed supposition of proliferation experts such as Mr. Albright.
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And his manifesto, of course, is shot through with lies, mendacity being Trump's native tongue.
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The past months have revealed a personality given to impetuous anger, meanness, mendacity and petulance.
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Mr. Gore's mendacity was supposedly demonstrated by trivial anecdotes, none significant, some of them simply false.
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You end up auditing ... I think in most cases this isn't mendacity, it's they are overwhelmed.
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His creepy persona reflects the winking mendacity and distracting stunts that typify his real-life rule.
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Of course, highlighting the mendacity of the BCRA does not mean that the ACA is perfect.
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Even our 'allies' will constantly surprise even the most hardened cynic with their mendacity and double-dealing.
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This capital of white marble is now encircled by yellow tape, rife with mendacity, cowardice and corruption.
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It was a small lie and, given the epic scale of this administration's mendacity, an inconsequential one.
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Ironically, Trump's serial mendacity doesn't significantly undermine his credibility — instead, it undermines the credibility of his political opponents.
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It also drifted further from the GOP's initial intended purpose, to put a spotlight on alleged Clintonian mendacity.
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And if fact [checking] is anything, we've never had anybody with the level of mendacity that he has.
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The harrowing film was a great success, especially as it coincided with fresh worries about Russian mendacity and menace.
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Hillary For America Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said that she was surprised by neither Trump's behavior nor his mendacity.
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The media and Trump critics assail him for what they portray as impulsiveness, mendacity and a lack of decorum.
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Call him out for his bigotry, his mendacity, his sheer mental and emotional unfitness for the office he occupies.
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Respect for the office must begin with Trump, who's sullied it with mendacity, bigotry and autocratic contempt for the Constitution.
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Comey said what he sees as Trump's mendacity "stains any human," making the people around the president complicit in deception.
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The more substantial mendacity at this point is the, now deleted, reference to Paul as "seemingly bland" at the parade.
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Mendacity and insults have left no room for any substantive discussion about what the next president's economic priorities ought to be.
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What is new is the degree to which voters are prepared to back leaders who seem to revel in their mendacity.
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Hunt is casting himself as the "adult in the room" compared to Johnson, who's gaffe-prone and a reputation for mendacity.
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The president often misuses the term "fake news," typically by treating every media mistake as evidence of willful and systematic mendacity.
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Tammany was not just an institution, synonymous with the Democratic machine in New York City; with patronage, self-dealing, mendacity and corruption.
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What's striking, instead, is the inability of either man to stay on script; they can't even get their right-wing mendacity right.
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Throughout his presidency, Trump has peddled mendacity and offered disinformation contradicting solid intelligence data that has been collected on matters like Russia.
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There is absolutely no precedent for this sort of mendacity -- in any politician, much less in a president of the United States.
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Nielsen, who one reader called "the queen of mendacity," got votes for her work separating thousands of families at the Mexican border.
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People are likely to dismiss messages they see as coming from the West or from a local government with a reputation for mendacity.
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Rather, she did something much worse in the eyes of those assembled: She ridiculed the White House press secretary's mendacity, hypocrisy and complicity.
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The former president and sitting senator has led an opposition campaign of such unrelenting mendacity and reckless hysteria it would embarrass Donald Trump.
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He routinely mixes bravado, mendacity, imprudent rhetoric and violent imagery to offer Americans a dark and gloomy alternative to Washington's recipe for gridlock.
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The greed of special interests, the mendacity of politicians, the cockroach endurance of lobbyists: If these are familiar, they are also endlessly compelling.
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A democracy once identified with great names such as Mohandas Gandhi has degenerated into Trumpland — an inferno of systemic brutishness, imbecility and mendacity.
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Southerners aren't alone in believing such mendacity, but the South is where slavery and segregation metastasized, so it may be more concentrated here.
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Why is Zuckerberg so quick to defend false speech as free speech, to open his mighty global creation to all manners of political mendacity?
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C., had an interesting idea in how civil litigation might provide a remedy for the ocean of mendacity in which we are currently swimming.
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That mendacity has inspired some liberal agita about how the debate moderators should handle Trump's penchant to lie more barefacedly than the average politician.
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But when mendacity crosses all media and all social institutions, when it becomes embedded in the culture, focusing on digital platforms misses the point.
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Bigotry, bullying, mendacity, vulgarity — everything emitted by the tweets of President Trump and amplified by his followers has damaged the atmosphere of public life.
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It's tempting to ignore the president's mendacity, since, as with so much of Trump's malicious propaganda, it's hard to counter it without amplifying it.
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Compared with the mendacity coming out of Washington, this is a little white lie that could save millions a world of pain and displacement.
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" And after wincing at the shrapnel of this testimony, Trump reverted to form, the default mode of presidential mendacity: "I barely know the man.
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Democrats tried hard to make Blaine's alleged mendacity a key issue, claiming that he had not only engaged in corruption but, worse, lied about it.
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The candid and emotionally honest nature of the words Melania spoke stands in utter opposition to the mendacity of the plagiarism from which they arose.
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In Le Roi Est Mort we see both power's sinister intoxication, its appeal, but also its farcical mendacity (which it tries to conceal behind pomp).
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So the audience would know that mendacity and bad things are not just out there; you're not just victim of them, you perpetrate them yourself.
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Trump's mendacity, viciousness, vulgarity and lack of preparation encouraged a kind of political journalism that wasn't just adversarial but outraged, urgent, mocking — and rightly so.
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" Discussing the mendacity of officials in Japan, he repeats their warnings not to give in to or spread what they refer to as "harmful rumors.
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Republicans bore witness just like the rest of us to Trump's hatred, racism, division, corruption and mendacity, but instead of rejecting him, they embraced him.
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The report is a damning document on the brutality of the C.I.A.'s practices, the shoddiness of its management, and the mendacity of its leaders.
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The pattern of taxpayer-financed mendacity continued nearly every day under the new regime, with lies about everything from the murder rate to the weather.
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Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show set a small portion of our list of Trump lies to music, and it's about as delightful as mendacity can be.
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Wordplay TUESDAY PUZZLE — Actions have consequences, but if I wanted to be more dramatic, I could say simply that there is a penalty for mendacity.
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A mist of mendacity has enveloped the Clintons for decades, for instance, their allegiance to truth seemingly a bother, something little people do and care about.
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After the gaudy display of mendacity toward Judge Kavanaugh, I find myself wondering if the voters in November may wish to send the radicals a message.
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But it was our lack of vigilance, not his peerless mendacity, that allowed Donald Trump the bogus reputation and stolen resources he needed to seize it.
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The decision by major broadcast networks to carry the address live set off a debate over journalistic responsibility in an age of unusual mendacity in politics.
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Some liberals have argued that the best way to combat conservative mendacity is to insist on the existence of truth and the reliability of hard facts.
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Unfortunately, he's also able to just put absolute crass mendacity into the world and has millions of people believing it, because he has so many followers.
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The indictment claims Stone lied to Congress and then used a "Godfather" analogy to encourage an associate to also lie to Congress to avoid exposing Stone's mendacity.
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But there is one line of defense that stands above (or below) the rest for its sheer absurdity, mendacity and, well, chutzpah: Donald Trump, International Corruption Buster.
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They have mobilized and are calling on U.S. officials to join their fight to denounce the anti-democratic Venezuelan regime, expose its mendacity and demand fair elections.
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Once Republicans realized the power they could amass by collaborating in Trumpian mendacity, most of them gleefully abandoned any sense of epistemological solidarity with their fellow Americans.
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The episode also exposed the mendacity of Chinese authorities, who at first denied and subsequently downplayed the outbreak, allowing it to gather momentum in critical early phases.
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" Conway responded with a flurry of tweets, and an interview in The Washington Post, where he said "the mendacity, the incompetence [of Trump], it's just maddening to watch.
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Trump's bullying misogyny, his mendacity, his contempt for the free press, his disregard for policy or preparation — all of it, we are now forced to admit, was brilliant.
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Not because he has a particularly compelling argument, but because through gross negligence he has been given a platform to spread his own brand of misinformation and mendacity.
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The broader problem is that the depravity, mendacity, vulgarity, and menace of the Trump Administration have put a lot of people, including reporters and editors, off their stride.
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So it was last week, when the Mendacity Machine rolled into Montana for a rally on behalf of two of the least likable politicians in the Rocky Mountains.
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I spoke to a hostile audience for the sake of every person who has watched this spectacle of mendacity in disbelief and misery for the past two years.
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But Trump's mendacity could pose problems in any interview with the special counsel, even if it's not under oath; making false statements to the FBI is a crime.
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The impact of Thompson's alleged fraud doesn't appear as severe as the mendacity of ex-New York Times journalist Jayson Blair or 1990s prestige mag darling Stephen Glass.
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Pettibon's real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
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Russian leaders may say sanctions do not affect them but their overtures to the Trump campaign and administration betray the mendacity of those claims, as do domestic Russian reports.
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At the same time, Clinton was absorbing a daily dose of WikiLeaks, offering an extremely unappealing tableau of mendacity, deception and the intermingling of public service with private self-enrichment.
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Written by Cesare Zavattini, who did the screenplays for many of De Sica's best-known works, the movie skewers the mendacity inherent in the postwar economic resurgence in his country.
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Pelosi, focused on enacting her "2628 for '28500" legislative agenda, pushed back against the impeachment demands notwithstanding her own suspicions about Bush's mendacity and her fervent opposition to the war.
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We are all familiar with the ways in which Donald Trump's demagogic assault on the press has already normalized presidential mendacity, mainstreamed "alternative facts," and desensitized millions of Americans to both.
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Throughout the course of this campaign I have made myself into a student of Trumpiloquence: the remarkable blend of bluster, double-talk, sophistry and mendacity that is the Orange One's native tongue.
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As for America, its government is often gridlocked thanks to partisan animosity, while the campaign for November's presidential election has plumbed depths of personal abuse, mendacity and barely disguised racism and sexism.
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To liberals grateful for institutional counterweights to the Trump Administration's crookedness, cruelty, and mendacity, Greenwald has been discouraging: U.S. institutions have long been broken, he maintains, and can offer only illusory comfort.
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But this man's vindictiveness and mendacity are undergirded by the unequaled power of the American president, and as such he has graduated on the scale of power from toddler to budding tyrant.
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James Delingpole wrote that Pruitt "sweated, stuttered, and floundered," and that he failed to point out "the incompetence, corruption, and mendacity" of world-renowned scientific institutions like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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I guess that's why they minimize Russian interference in our elections; indulge Trump's bromances with Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duterte and Kim Jong-un; and smile upon his mendacity, misogyny, racism and unchecked greed.
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In those dark moments of mendacity, I thought about the giant rat from "The Boy Who Drew Cats" that I had imagined escaping from my father's cellar on that first visit long ago.
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O'Neill said Johnson had failed to provide a sworn legal statement to the court, adding the prime minister was "unable to tell the truth" and that his political life was characterised by "incontinent mendacity".
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O'Neill said Johnson had failed to provide a sworn legal statement to the court, adding the prime minister was "unable to tell the truth" and that his political life was characterized by "incontinent mendacity".
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Following the lamentable campaign of 2016, people surely had modest expectations for the manner in which Trump would conduct himself in office, but his belligerence and his mendacity have been astonishing even by his standards.
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But Johnson outdid even Farage in mendacity, with his racist claim that Turkey was about to enter the EU and that if the UK didn't leave Europe, the country would be swamped with dangerous Muslims.
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The assaults on science and the press by Trump and his followers are not local eruptions of deceit and mendacity but a well-poisoning assault on public rational discourse, a prerequisite for a healthy democracy.
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Often the phenomenon was a bad thing: Under Communism, citizens would publicly proclaim the wisdom of a system about which they actually harbored grave doubts, and this "culture of mendacity" supported a malign political order.
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Lawyers for Mr. Aiello and Mr. Gerardi, the two executives with COR, a company that has given generously to Mr. Cuomo's campaigns, also described their clients as innocent victims of Mr. Howe's charm and mendacity.
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"This is a classic example of hubris and mendacity," said Mr. Sopko, a former prosecutor who was appointed as the special inspector general by President Barack Obama in 2012 and has remained under the Trump administration.
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Five decades of reporting have taught me that whenever a president starts screeching about the media, it's a sure sign he's in hot water and fearing revelations about some policy disaster, damaging mendacity or political villainy.
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Given the scale of Trump's mendacity and the stakes for the free world, it's time that we go into the fall debates with a new rule — an instant fact-check on statements made by the candidates onstage.
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American racial and class divisions, generational rifts, a national culture of violence and a degree of governmental mendacity too crass to be ignored were all contributing factors to the country's on-the-edge view of the war.
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This makes it seem — inaccurately, I think, for this is the rare jukebox musical without even a whiff of mendacity about it — that the creators' top goal was to pack in as much of Ms. Morissette's catalog as possible.
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Donald J. Trump has consistently exposed the mendacity that permeates political discourse, from the empty promises and canned talking points of the professional politicians to the institutional bias and overt opinion-mongering of the professional journalists who enable them.
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One man cannot outmaneuver globalization and automation to restore jobs that once existed and it's high time that Democrats capitalized on President Trump's mendacity by telling voters a different story — one of true job opportunity through the renewable energy revolution.
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He has turned the official assessment—at best, a declaration that he had been used—into a symbol of American failure, establishment mendacity, Democratic hysteria, neo-McCarthyism, and fake news, in this way stoking partisan anger and needless institutional mistrust.
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As a matter of politics, however, it's hard to think of a mechanism so uniquely well-suited for exposing the hubris, ignorance, prejudice, mendacity and catastrophic self-regard of the president who is supposed to lead us through this crisis.
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If cheating "our institutions" (by means of an "assault" in "every way" on the legal system) is impeachable, why is cheating those institutions (by means of nonstop presidential mendacity and relentless attacks on the Justice Department and the F.B.I.) not impeachable?
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It is an era that should be ripe for journalists and for the business of journalism — a profession that, though it errs often, is the best way we know of inoculating ourselves against the suffocating deluge of rumor and mendacity.
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Editorial To understand the cynicism and mendacity underlying the Republican tax bill, look no further than a provision that would benefit President Trump and other property tycoons that is in the final legislation Congress is expected to vote on this week.
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What, then, are we to make of Trump's exhortation to Russia, and the mendacity of Trump campaign officials who lied -- either to Mueller or to Congress -- about their involvement with Russian operatives to such an extent that it impaired the special counsel's investigation?
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Mr. Putin and his reckless fakers should be aware that the only thing they will harvest from this mendacity is another lost generation of Russians who could serve their country better by being given the opportunity for honest and constructive intellectual challenges.
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Liberals are castigated for everything from failing to vigorously oppose World War I to watering down the Black Lives Matter movement; liberalism is described as "inadequate" to 19th-century German workers' needs and decried for its "mendacity" in early-20th-century Russia.
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Popular Force, which gave him 24 hours to quit if he wanted to avoid the spectacle of impeachment, accused him of mendacity and a conflict of interest: he was Mr Toledo's finance chief, and later prime minister when the payments to Westfield were made.
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Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions.
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And does there not come a point in the marathon of mendacity and mismanagement when one must summon the courage to say that a government that has forced between 2 and 5 million of its people into exile is no longer either legitimate or legal?
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LONDON — Capping a chronicle of illicit sex, bad loans and serial mendacity, a British Army sergeant was convicted on Thursday of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute before a sky-dive as a prelude to life with another woman. Sgt.
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In Shapiro's hands, Quinn—who has been denied her fair share of the show's profits by venal male colleagues—and her protégée emerge as antiheroes, and beneath the giddy parody "Un real " offers a singular meditation on stardom, media mendacity, sexism, and competition among women.
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If Trump were interested in facts rather rabble-rousing mendacity and the theatrical stringing of concertina wire by military forces needlessly dispatched to the border, he might note the following: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — not Mexico — are now the overwhelming source of northward migration.
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Amy Klobuchar, who has also launched a series of sharp salvos at Warren, struck a similar tone when she suggested, on the debate stage last week, that her colleague's refusal to deliver a plainly-worded answer to the tax question is symptomatic of some core mendacity.
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It was a bruising night for Trump, with Biden claiming the real estate mogul/reality TV personality lacks compassion and empathy, Kaine mocking his speech patterns and mendacity, and the president slamming him for being a fear-mongering demagogue with no faith in the American people.
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For one thing, a politician's policy specifics are often a very important clue to his or her true character — I warned about George W. Bush's mendacity back when most journalists were still portraying him as a bluff, honest fellow, because I actually looked at his tax proposals.
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He appeared sheepish and ashamed, and he asserted that a seeming act of fraud that emerged last week during cross-examination — an attempt to claw back money from a luxury hotel in New York in 2016 — was a fault of his memory, not his well-documented mendacity.
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After nearly two years of assessing the accuracy of Mr. Trump's statements, we can draw some conclusions not just about the scale of the president's mendacity, but also about how he uses inaccurate claims to advance his agenda, criticize the news media and celebrate his achievements.
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They have what many consider an unappetizing choice between Boris Johnson, an upper-class Conservative with a long reputation for mendacity, and Jeremy Corbyn, an aging socialist who is nearly as unpopular as Prince Andrew, whose youthful nickname of "Randy Andy" no longer seems so amusing.
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If these violations are to be addressed in a fashion that keeps the trans-Atlantic alliance unified, the U.S. must leverage data from UN reporting to develop a new consensus in international fora that Tehran's non-nuclear misbehavior matters just as much as its nuclear mendacity.
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The decade of the 1980s was also the era of the fake-cowboy Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" myth and his party's evolving campaign of coded racism, feckless corruption, bald-faced mendacity, and eroding of civil rights, which ultimately led to the ascent of the Republicans' current, lawless regime.
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While many of us know this to be nothing more than dialectical mendacity framed as an excuse, Trump most likely will avoid indictment because few, if any, U.S. attorneys with jurisdiction on the matter would bring a case that stands zero likelihood of a conviction based upon the ambiguity.
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What both of these books make clear from a variety of angles is that if we are going to beat back the regressive populism, mendacity and hyperpolarization in which we are currently mired, we are going to need an educated citizenry fluent in a wise and universal liberalism.
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While the insight into the void at the heart of Mr. Johnson's blond ambition is striking, there are some constants to his politics other than his spectacular mendacity: his defense of bankers and pursuit of tax cuts, and a loathing for those who call him to account over facts.
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With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. — any group or institution that he finds threatening or useful as a scapegoat — Mr. Trump is attempting the Orwellian trick of redefining American reality on his own terms.
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Everything the new President did was spectacularly visible, of course, and that enabled him to undertake a hostile takeover of the US electorate, fueled by rage, mendacity, and heightened economic inequality, post-financial crisis, in the US. So we're seeing what look like win-wins for Trump and the business world.
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The freewheeling ferocity with which the artist savages the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, it can be argued, is as much an attack on the politicians per se as it is an interrogation of the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
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Every day, Sean Spicer presides over an opportunity for highly paid correspondents to posture about the supposedly unprecedented level of mendacity on the part of the president and his representatives, relentlessly pushing the narrative that press freedoms and the public's right to know are facing grave threats from the Trump administration.
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Other members of this administration are implicated in Trump's unique mix of mendacity and demagogy, but many of them occupy jobs that actually need doing, where they can reasonably (well, some days, at least) see themselves as checks on their boss's worst tendencies, hard at work serving the country rather than the man.
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" In the series of tweets to his 369,000 followers — apparently prompted by Trump incorrectly stating Wednesday that District Judge Amy Berman Jackson definitively proved there was "no collusion" in his campaign during her sentencing of former campaign manager Paul Manafort — Conway asked: "Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life?
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Here are some of our favorites from the past couple weeks: • After nearly two years of assessing the accuracy of President Trump's statements, The Times's chief fact checker stepped back to look at the scale of the president's mendacity, and how he uses inaccurate claims to advance his agenda, criticize the news media and celebrate his achievements.
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One way to view Trump is that only his personal failings — his bullying, his petulance, his egomania, his ignorance, his inconsistency, his mendacity, his racism, his hair-trigger temper, his arrogance, his disorganization and his misogyny — stand in the way of his emerging as the logical victor in an anti-status quo, pro-change election that produced in Bernie Sanders the other political phenomenon of 2016.
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How could Jon Stewart — who famously branded Donald Trump with a spectacularly vulgar nickname that ended with "Von Clownstick," and who was himself disparaged by the same man with dog-whistle references to his Jewish heritage (Trump insisted on calling him by his real name, Jon Leibowitz) — not defend the journalists who have confronted this president over his excesses in ugly rhetoric, racial division and thoroughgoing mendacity?
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Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, was outspoken in his response to my question asking why the Russians favored Trump: His shameless mendacity, narcissism, authoritarian instincts, inability to tolerate opposition or criticism, hostility to formal institutions and the media, vast ignorance of foreign and domestic issues, indifference to constitutional restraints and eagerness to whip up and exploit xenophobia and (barely disguised) racism.
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For some people who reviewed transcripts from "Author" provided by The New York Times, the revelation years after the fact that Ms. Albert had been covertly recording phone calls was yet another deception in a trail of mendacity that extended to the late 1990s and early 2000s, when JT LeRoy published "Sarah," a novel about a 12-year-old truck-stop prostitute, and "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things," linked short stories about an abused boy.
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George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE, on Wednesday ripped President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's "brazen, pathological mendacity" in a series of tweets, questioning whether a "serious inquiry" needs to be made into the president's mental state.
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