Trump tells more big lies

To the editor:
In Tuesday night’s debate, Donald Trump told another one of his “big lies.”
This time targeting Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio with the charge that they were eating people’s pets–dogs and cats. And, like the “big lie,”of the stolen 2020 election, this lie is hurting people, not that that is any concern of his.
This lie was not a Trump original but was promulgated first by J.D. Vance who copied it from known conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. When Trump made this claim during the debate, ABC News debate moderator rebutted this outrageous statement by contacting the Springfield, Ohio community.
However, in the Trump universe truth hardly seems to matter. His big lie of a stolen election resulted in a mob of his supporters storming and ransacking the capital on January 6th. At least 60 cases filed in the federal courts and decided by judges, in many cases those appointed by Trump, did not find any evidence that the election was stolen.
Top officials in the Trump administration like Attorney General Bill Barr found this to be a false claim–all the lies and the blustering did not change the fact that Biden won in 2020.
What it did do was undermine the faith that Americans have always had in our free and fair elections and put in jeopardy the “peaceful transfer of power,” that has characterized American democracy since George Washington.
On January 26, 2016, Newsweek Magazine published an article entitled, “How Can You Tell Trump is Lying? When His Lips Move.” New York–based financial journalist, Allan Chernoff, writes that he had investigated Trump’s business dealings and traced his ups and downs for years.
“Business reporters, like me, who have covered ‘The Donald’ know two basic facts about him. First he is a brilliant marketer, highly skilled at drawing attention to himself and his name, the Trump brand, after all, is the foundation of his enterprise. Second, Donald Trump is an inveterate liar whose boasting is matched only by his deceitfulness.”
Sound like anybody you know?
Mary Kathryn Gepner
Benton