Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax AbuseElise J. BeanPalgrave Macmillan, 2018, 449 pp., $49.99
Donald Trump has, as of the moment I write this, made 8,158 false or misleading claims since becoming President. He began by averaging five a day, but his daily score is now into the double figures and accelerating. Anyone who started out thinking he was just over-exuberant has had to reconsider. Falsehoods are a deliberate weapon in his political arsenal, and he has inspired a surge in fabrications from other leaders all over the world.Politicians have always lied, but it has been generations …read more
Source: The American Interest
