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Timothy Patrick's avatar

Trump has a history of admitting that he says things that are not true. Remember when he privately said that he knew Covid was more contagious and deadly than the flu, even while his public speeches compared Covid to the flu and said public health officials were overreacting? He knows what people want to hear, and gives it to them even when it contradicts reality.

And yet you’ll hear people regularly say “At least he says exactly what thinks.” Even people who do not like him give him that benefit of the doubt. It’s almost as if people like him benefit from a double standard throughout their lives, being held responsible for nothing…

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Jennifer Smith's avatar

This! It’s mind boggling that his voters simultaneously say “he says it like it is” and “he doesn’t mean what he just said”.

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