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IN MY OPINION

SOCRATES:
"Haven't you noticed that opinions without knowledge are shameful and ugly things?
The best of them are blind - or do you think that
those who express a true opinion without understanding
​are any different from blind people who happen to travel the right road?" 


(PLATO's ​REPUBLIC, Book VI 506c)
PLATO COMPLETE WORKS
Translator: G.M.A. Grube, Revised by C.D.C. Reeve, John M. Cooper, Editor, D.S. Hutchison, Associated Editor,
Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis / Cambridge, 1997, p.1127

DONALD TRUMP, A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR

14/8/2020

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Now that a HuffPost's reporter has decided to bluntly asked Donald Trump an all-important question about his habitual lies to the American people, I expect another lie as an answer from him. To my disappointment, Donald Trump was caught unprepared and stood speechless!
Long before Donald Trump decided to run for the US presidential election he had been known to be a dishonest person. He lies very often, so often that Republican senator Ted Cruz, one of his presidential candidate competitors called him a 'pathological liar'. Trump's lies have become an uncontrollable behavior. I first found this behavior abhorring and unacceptable. Somehow, after almost four years of his presidency I now find his life in lies very entertaining. I never take him seriously. Neither does the world. The Washington Post fact-checker continues to have a busy day every day, and days ahead. 

Somkiat Onwimon
14 August 2020




The White House
05:10 PM ET 13 August 2020

​
Axios reports:
Reporter to Trump: "Do you regret all of the lying you have done to the American people?"
Axios

S.V. Dáte, a White House reporter for HuffPost, asked President Trump at a briefing Thursday if he regrets "all of the lying" he has done "to the American people" over the last three and a half years.
Why it matters: The Washington Post fact-checker finds that Trump has made over 20,000 false or misleading claims throughout his presidency. Trump, who has rarely been confronted directly with claims that he has lied, paused for a moment before moving on to another reporter without answering the question.
The exchange:
REPORTER: "Mr. President, after three and a half years, do you regret at all, all the lying you've done to the American people?"
TRUMP: "All the what?"
REPORTER: "All the lying. All the dishonesties."
TRUMP: "And who is that?"
REPORTER: "You have done.”
https://www.axios.com/trump-lying-reporter-6cf1cc32-4471-4a68-8cbf-2c03bf29d78c.html

CNN anchor Jim Acosta later added on air: “A new low and a day full of lows”

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    Somkiat Onwimon
    (1948 - 20xx)
    ​lives in Thailand, studied political science and international relations from The University of Delhi (B.A. & M.A.) and The University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.). He lectured at Chulalongkorn University, and later became a television news 'n documentary reporter-producer-anchorman. He was elected a member of Thailand's 1997 Constitution Drafting Assembly, elected a senator in 2000, and appointed member of the National  Legislative Assembly in 2007. Now at his Pak Chong home, he lives a quiet country life of reading, writing, and thinking.


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