So, instead of hiring a shrink, trump swamp-trolls for appointees like Sean "Sideshow" Spicer. Although his title lists Spicer as trump's press secretary, in reality, he functions more as a presidential "hype-man" -- a Baghdad Bob -like agitprop-artist dressed in a Scott McClellan suit. Spicer and Kellyanne Conway are perhaps the most visible -- and entertaining -- of an eclectic assortment of presidential enablers appointed to facilitate the chronic self-delusion that has helped their boss imperil his own "presidency." Spicer shows up for his daily press briefings for the sole purpose of deflecting any criticism of trump -- principally by shamelessly declaring as "fake news," any reporting deemed to be disparaging -- and to unload on reporters, a daily deluge of the abstract claptrap that Conway euphemistically describes as "alternative facts."
Other than trump himself, it's been the efforts of appointees like Spicer and Conway that have helped many Americans reach the understanding that of all the ultimately dead-end rhetorical escape routes taken by trump, flat-out lying is the one most travelled. In fact, since his Inauguration Day whopper about crowd size -- which included an attempt to get the National Park Service to somehow produce corroborating photos -- it has become nearly impossible to navigate the complex matrix of scandal, subterfuge, investigations, intrigue, chaos, drama, and sinisterism; all tenuously held together by a rapidly unravelling web of lies. His whoppers have been not only immeasurably prolific, but are also vomited out with an insane degree of audacity. Certainly his most brazen -- and daring -- was unloaded on an audience of thoroughly-deluded deplorables during a speech at the Charlotte Convention Center this past August.
"I will never lie to you," lied trump. "I will never tell you something I do not believe."
"Oli-gate?"
Most certainly, the matter for which the consequences of trump's propensity for lying looms most large would be his campaign's possible connection to the Putin regime and Russian oligarchs or "Oli-gate" -- dubbed here as such by virtue of the fact that this potentially historical political scandal appears more Watergate-like with the passing of each day's news cycle.
Of course the exceptions to that view are trump supporters who remain not only perplexingly obliging of trump's uncontrollable mendacity, but also blithely unconcerned about the gravity and potential outcome of any of the multiple Oli-gate-related investigations now underway. The most fervent among them have apparently decided to cast matters related to Oli-gate into a realm perhaps best described as an alt-right manifestation of Hillary Clinton's "vast right wing conspiracy." Their version features a dark network of "globalist elites" engaged in a horrid "deep state" sweepstakes in which the grand prize is donald trump's head on a chopping block.
Regardless, by mid-March, the disregard shown by trump supporters for the Oli-gate concerns of Americans by-and-large was challenged when it was revealed that since last July -- a period during which trump was loudly demanding a criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton -- the FBI had been somewhat quietly running a counter-intelligence investigation of possible connections between the Russian government and the trump campaign.
That revelation was made by FBI Director James Comey during a congressional hearing on the Bureau's investigation of trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Comey made clear that "a reasonable basis to believe that an American may be acting as a foreign agent" is the trigger to an FBI counter-intelligence investigation.
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