Donald Trump’s lies took on the look of fevered hallucinations last week.
First, Trump falsely claimed that his rallies have more attendees than Harris-Walz rallies.
To counter evidence of television camera shots of the big crowds, he said it was an illusion, all computer-generated by some evil hand.
Second, Trump claimed to have once been in a near-death helicopter crash with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, where Brown confided to him “terrible things” about his one-time protege Harris in what they thought would be their final moments alive on Earth.
Brown says Trump is lost in a crazed fantasy because this never happened.
Third, Trump held up two boxes of TicTac candy to falsely claim that inflation has ballooned grocery prices by “50, 60, even 100 percent in some cases,” despite official, publicly available statistics showing the rise has been closer to 20 percent.
And since he is running in a 2024 campaign, the most pertinent fact is that inflation has slowed and just hit its lowest mark since 2021.
But Trump is selling his followers a fantasy in which the only truth is what Trump says is the truth.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a theory about this blizzard of lies. The Trump show, Sanders suggests, has shifted from mocking liberals and........