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Trump’s Legal Jeopardy: Juneteenth Edition
Ever since Tony Schwartz ghost wrote Donald Trump’s first bestseller, The Art of the Deal, Americans have been familiar with Trump’s penchant for “truthful hyperbole.” Trump wrote in 1987:
“People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
As NPR recent reported Trump’s response to his indictment for his handling of classified documents:
“The ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration’s weaponized ‘Department of Injustice’ will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country, . . .This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice.”
As you can see Trump still engages in blatant exaggeration, hyperbole but without the truthfulness. At his speech following the indictment Trump continued in a similar vein.
And today we witnessed the most evil and heinous abusive power in the history of our country, a…
