Bernstein: 'We've Never Had A President Who Lies' Like Trump
- 6 years ago
Journalist Carl Bernstein on Sunday slammed President Trump in a CNN interview.
Journalist Carl Bernstein on Sunday suggested President Trump is the biggest liar the U.S. presidency has ever known. That's saying quite a bit, as he, along with Bob Woodward, wrote extensively on the Watergate scandal and the events leading up to the end of former President Richard Nixon's time in office. In a discussion about whether Trump will submit to being questioned by the Russia investigations' special counsel Robert Mueller, Bernstein told CNN, "I think many of us will believe it when we see him sit down with Mueller."
"Look, we have no reason to believe almost anything that [Trump] says. What is so extraordinary about him and his presidency is the incessant, compulsive, continual lying," Bernstein continued. "We've never had a president who lies like this, certainly in the modern era. Even Nixon," The comment comes after an editorial he and Woodward published Saturday on CNN's website. It largely recounts Nixon's seemingly desperate efforts to keep damning evidence out of investigators' hands, but begins with a reference to Trump. "We're here again. A powerful and determined President is squaring off against an independent investigator operating inside the Justice Department," the journalists wrote. They're far from the only ones to have commented on Trump's troubled relationship with the truth. Politico Magazine recently delved into the impact the president's reported lies may be having on those around him and the American public at large. It pointed to studies that have found that when lies are either repeated or fit within one's worldview, they're more apt to be accepted as truth. That turning of falsehoods into facts was also addressed in a mid-January piece written by the editorial board of USA Today. It specifically focused on Trump's reported "shithole" comment in reference to some African countries and mentioned the key role that lies played in the efforts to boost the president's denials and invalidate the first-person accounts.
Journalist Carl Bernstein on Sunday suggested President Trump is the biggest liar the U.S. presidency has ever known. That's saying quite a bit, as he, along with Bob Woodward, wrote extensively on the Watergate scandal and the events leading up to the end of former President Richard Nixon's time in office. In a discussion about whether Trump will submit to being questioned by the Russia investigations' special counsel Robert Mueller, Bernstein told CNN, "I think many of us will believe it when we see him sit down with Mueller."
"Look, we have no reason to believe almost anything that [Trump] says. What is so extraordinary about him and his presidency is the incessant, compulsive, continual lying," Bernstein continued. "We've never had a president who lies like this, certainly in the modern era. Even Nixon," The comment comes after an editorial he and Woodward published Saturday on CNN's website. It largely recounts Nixon's seemingly desperate efforts to keep damning evidence out of investigators' hands, but begins with a reference to Trump. "We're here again. A powerful and determined President is squaring off against an independent investigator operating inside the Justice Department," the journalists wrote. They're far from the only ones to have commented on Trump's troubled relationship with the truth. Politico Magazine recently delved into the impact the president's reported lies may be having on those around him and the American public at large. It pointed to studies that have found that when lies are either repeated or fit within one's worldview, they're more apt to be accepted as truth. That turning of falsehoods into facts was also addressed in a mid-January piece written by the editorial board of USA Today. It specifically focused on Trump's reported "shithole" comment in reference to some African countries and mentioned the key role that lies played in the efforts to boost the president's denials and invalidate the first-person accounts.