Everyone knows the president lies. Most people understand he does it every day, about pretty much everything. We’ve gotten used to it.

What we forget is just how corrosive it is to our democracy. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-untruth-lies-false_n_5e0bac46e4b0843d360c94ea

I’ve been a journalist for 33 years. I’ve covered Congress. City and county halls. The Florida statehouse. Criminal courts, including armed robbers and serial killers.

In all of that time, I have never encountered a public official, a candidate for office, a bureaucrat, a defense lawyer or, frankly, an actual criminal who is as regularly and aggressively dishonest as the current president of the United States.

And that includes a dozen years covering the Florida legislature.

If there’s one, single lie that’s the most corrosive, it’s this one, which Trump has sold to so many of his supporters: That everyone lies, and everything is corrupt.

Well, it’s not true. And accepting it as true most benefits corrupt liars, and undermines self-government.

I don’t normally write pieces like this. I wrote this, because it’s important. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-untruth-lies-false_n_5e0bac46e4b0843d360c94ea