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How far will Donald Trump go to sell a lie?
How far will Donald Trump go to sell a lie?
POTUS goes after Portland, Chicago and New York's attorney general, taking vengeance to another level
By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published October 10, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)
(Salon) After a week of government shutdown, it is obvious the United States is irreparably broken.
You don’t have to believe me. Just listen to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. In a recent CNN appearance, he claimed President Donald Trump “has plenary authority” — absolute power, in other words — to ignore court rulings. Oops. In other words, Trump is God.
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How, pray tell, will that be, Donny? Putting that aside, consider a country where masked men without identification are dragging citizens out of their homes. No charges are filed. Due process is ignored and people are held against their will. Members of the clergy are physically attacked. Only one faith is accepted. The legislature is so broken it cannot operate. The criminal justice system is compromised by corruption and sloth.
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“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book. “It has to be thought of as infallible.” Therefore, “only one opinion is permissible at any given moment.”
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Today, facts told as fiction are not nearly as popular as fictions presented as facts. That is the Donald Trump twist on reality. And as much as some would dismiss the obvious parallels between the book “1984” and current reality, the fact is that two plus two does not equal five and never will. ..................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/10/how-far-will-donald-trump-go-to-sell-a-lie/
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