Carlos Lozada Quotes
The current president does not even attempt to save face. Fact-checkers have documented so many of Trump's false or misleading statements during the 2016 campaign and into the first year of his presidency that there is no presumption of honesty left to squander. Even when Trump dismisses the fact checks as fake news - in effect, being dishonest about his dishonesty - it doesn't seem to matter. Trump's relentless attacks against anyone seeking to hold him accountable help neutralize the impact on his supporters.
Carlos Lozada, "The presidency in scandal", The Washington Post, December 22, 2017
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Referring to Donald Trump, the then Republican Presidential nominee whose background was in business and he was a strong promoter and had exaggerated and used hyperbole constantly in his adult life.
Ryan told the national audience that President Obama had come to a factory in his district that as rumored to be closed. Obama had told the workers that the Federal government could assist and keep the factory open for many years. Then as Ryan explained, the factory closed the following year. He gave this as an example of Obama not keeping his word. However what Ryan did not say was that Obama had made the speech at the factory when he was a candidate for the Presidency, and then the factory was closed while George W. Bush was President and by the time he took office, the closure was done and the factory machines gone. And when Obama took office, our national economy was within days of complete bank and finance collapse. Obama saved most of the banks and then the American automobile industry. To suggest that Obama could have or should have done something for the factory that closed was shockingly misleading. It would have been a minor issue if some party hack had lied and made the same accusation. But this was the Vice Presidential Candidate whose acceptance speech was assumedly vetted by the Presidential Candidate’s staff. That is why the quotation was so memorable.
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Carlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic at the Washington Post. Previously, he served as the paper’s national security editor and economics editor. Before joining the Post in 2005, he was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, which he helped lead to the 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence. He has also been a Knight-Bagehot fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University.
