Certain types of personality are drawn to telling these sorts of lies, including those with little empathy, such as narcissists and psychopaths. They don’t care about the consequences for the recipient; it’s all about them.
They ask themselves two questions: How on earth does Trump get away with it? And why do American voters not simply and firmly reject a man who can only be described as a congenital liar in a significant majority?
Decision 2024: Why Does Trump Get Away With So Many Lies?
Schools secretly sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without parental consent. Towns and even cities conquered by illegal immigrants. Pervasive election fraud. The highest inflation of all time. Presiding over it all: an illegitimate president who stole the job from the rightful winner.
None of this is true. Trump keeps telling his crowds that it is.
Analysis: Donald Trump’s campaign of relentless lying
Trump’s lying is most exceptional in its relentlessness, a never-ending avalanche of wrongness that can bury even the most devoted fact-checkers. But it’s also notable for its repetitiveness. He has found his hits, and he’ll keep playing them no matter how many times they are debunked.
Analysis: Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago