Trump Had No Response When Asked If He Regrets All His Lies

Donald Trump , a president whose persistent untruths and obfuscation led to a disastrous pandemic response that has left more than 165,000 people dead in the U.S., was asked if he regrets all the lies hes told to the American people. He skipped the question.

HuffPost senior White House correspondent S.V. Dte asked the president during Thursdays coronavirus task force briefing if, after 3 years, do you regret at all all the lying youve done to the American people? All the dishonesties?

That who has done? Trump replied.

You have done, said Dte, who wrote at length about Trumps Ministry of Untruth earlier this year.

Trump paused and then moved on to the next question.

Question: Do you regret at all the lying youve done to the American people? pic.twitter.com/FUh5jYHs0o

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Question: Do you regret at all the lying youve done to the American people? pic.twitter.com/FUh5jYHs0o
Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) August 13, 2020

In his report, Dte noted that Trumps stream of falsehoods across nearly every topic and in any setting is corroding Americas democracy as it normalizes lies coming from the nations highest office.

According to a running fact-check database by The Washington Post , Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims since taking office. Last month, as the tracker passed the shocking milestone, the projects editor, Glenn Kessler, and fact-check reporters Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly wrote , The notion that Trump would exceed 20,000 claims before he finished his term appeared ludicrous when The Fact Checker started this project during the presidents first 100 days in office.

In that time, its authors noted, Trump on average made fewer than five false claims a day. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger, they said.

The events of the past 15 months including Trumps impeachment trial, the coronavirus pandemic thats infected millions and shattered the economy, and nationwide anti-racism protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black men and women in police custody have filled an entirely new ballpark of falsehoods from the president, and the tally continues to climb.

According to the database, he reached nearly a thousand false claims about coronavirus alone in just a matter of months. His persistent downplaying of the virus, suppression of warnings from experts and repeated pushes to prematurely reopen businesses, speculating that the virus will just go away, has contributed to a resurgence of COVID-19 in the U.S. thats killing more than a thousand people each day.

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