And it gives the media a chance to print "he lies" since it's someone else saying it, and they're afraid of getting in trouble.
And it entices Donald to say something stupid like, "I don't lie, she lies. Everyone knows it" since that's what he's devolved into. Anyway then the paper can print that too.
This discussion happened on a different post of the same interview but her statement is a lot better than the Daily Beast's summary... she left wiggle room and laid on the sarcasm instead of making a definitive statement.
She should smuggle a little whiteboard and a dry erase marker onto the stage. And strike a line on the whiteboard each time he lies. If Trump can use a marker during an official presidential event to clumsily (and incompetently) predict where a hurricane will hit, she should be able to use in during a debate.
Sure the board would be full within a few minutes. But at least this way she'd have a better way of showing the volume of lies he spews.
Plus it would drive him fucking insane, which would be hilarious to watch.
He totally knows he's lying. It's just justified in his narcissistic mind as what you do to get your way. If he's dementing, and I think he is, it's on top of that life-long sense of entitlement to get his way via whatever means necessary.
I think he does some intentional lying, and he says false shit believing that it is true, but most of what he says is bullshit. And I mean bullshit in the sense that he neither knows nor cares whether it's a true statement, he just knows that it's helpful to his goals in the moment, therefore he says it. When he talks about over 20M illegal immigrants entering this year, it's impossible for him to know a number on that since it obviously isn't tracked, but I'm sure that it doesn't matter what the actual number is at all. He just pulls out a big number to scare racist people into getting upset enough to come and vote for the guy who says that it needs to stop, which is him. He doesn't care that it's not an accurate number, and because he doesn't know the real number for sure then it's impossible to prove that he knows that it's not actually that number and therefore not a certain lie per se. He gets all of the benefit of lying without any of the attached accountability. He bullshits.
Sure, but Trump is a totally different tier of liar.
Most politicians "lie" through omission. They'll tell the truth, just not the parts that make them or their friends look bad. That and overly ambitious campaign promises...but I generally look past that because they should really be called "campaign goals", and the "stretch goals" should be easily identified by anyone with two braincells to rub together.
Trump just puts out straight up objective falsehoods and rattles them off with a straight face.
She's going to do a lot of talking, but like we found out in her last debate with Biden she admitted that everything she said was bullshit because "It was a debate!" Its all political theater