{"id":46628,"date":"2019-06-13T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46628"},"modified":"2019-06-13T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:42:41","slug":"cover-ups-and-truth-tellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46628","title":{"rendered":"Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I<\/strong>n a May, 22, 2019 appearance in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump declared that \u201cI don\u2019t do cover-ups<\/a>.\u201d Various news outlets immediately started to enumerate a long list of bona fide cover-ups<\/a> associated with the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can one say about this bit of Trumpian nonsense? Can you accuse a person of lying who actually seems not to know the difference between truth and untruth? Trump\u2019s inability in this regard<\/a> is demonstrated daily, and The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em> fact checker puts the running count of presidential lies <\/a>at 10,111, with no end in sight. When it comes to reality, the president appears to be a malignant version of Walter Mitty<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump delivering State of the Union address, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (White House\/ D. Myles Cullen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Trump\u2019s behavior is but the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cover-ups. One can surmise that just by virtue of being the head of the U.S. government, the president \u2014 any president \u2014 must be directly or indirectly associated with hundreds of such evasions. That is because, it can be argued without much paranoia, that every major division of the government is hiding something \u2014particularly when it comes to foreign activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, being cover-ups by the government may make them appear acceptable, at least to a naive public. Many of them are rationalized as necessary for the sake of national \u201csecurity.\u201d And, of course, everyone wants to be \u201csecure,\u201d accepting the notion that\u00a0\u201cpeople sleep peaceably in their beds<\/a>\u00a0at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers In a May, 22, 2019 appearance in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump declared that \u201cI don\u2019t do cover-ups.\u201d Various news outlets immediately started to enumerate a long list of bona fide cover-ups associated with the president. What can one say about this bit of Trumpian nonsense? Can you accuse a person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1317,7844,16363,2864,877],"class_list":["post-46628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cover-up","tag-donald-trump","tag-lawrence-davidson","tag-lies","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46629,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46628\/revisions\/46629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}