We all remember it – in the sunup to the 2016 Trump lied thousands of times over 6 years that Barack Obama was not born in the US. The lie was outrageous, silly, and debunked before he spread it, but it didn’t matter to him. Subscribing to Joseph Goebbel’s philosophy, of “The Big Lie“, Trump repeats his lies in a continuous loop no matter how outrageous, and the list is long; from his lies about immigrants, the border, the economy, environment, nonexistent voter fraud, the Clinton Foundation, and even the weather, no lie is too big for Trump. If it serves his purpose, lying is his first and only offensive tactic.
Carrying that tactic to 2020, you can read the roadmap. It’s pretty obvious that Biden is the leading and strongest candidate against Trump, and he knows it. That’s why 14 months out from the election Trump has implemented the strategy of the Big Lie. And that Big Lie is that Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden engaged in years of corruption and coverup of corruption with the government of Ukraine. Never mind that there is ZERO evidence of any corruption or scandal; Trump and his henchmen have been prosecuting an offensive and defensive war against Biden, one to smear the Democratic frontrunner, and other to cover up the actual scandal, which is Trump and Giuliani soliciting the assistance of a foreign power to help him defeat an American political opponent.
Trump breathed life into the latest Big Lie today at the UN when he denied any wrongdoing in seeking foreign assistance in the next election by lying about the conversation saying he was withholding aid to Ukraine BECAUSE of the non-existent corruption between Biden and the government of Ukraine. Did you see it? Trump brushed aside his actual corruption by spinning the lie that he was actually trying to get Ukraine to stop helping Biden. The notion of this lie is laughable, but it’s not. This is how it starts. The echo chamber will pick it up, just like they picked up the birther lie, the Benghazi lie, the voter fraud lie, and even the weather lie. By tomorrow, normal people will be slacked jawed when Trump’s bullshit will transform into an article of faith for his sycophants.
This WILL happen, and Biden’s team needs to be ready to aggressively call Trump’s bullshit uh, bullshit.