The definitive history of presidential lying, revealing how our standards for truthfulness have eroded-and why Trump\'s lies are especially dangerous If there\'s one thing we know about Donald Trump, it\'s that he lies.
In Lying in State , Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief, showing that, from early on, the United States has persistently expanded its power and hegemony on th.
But he\'s by no means the first president to do so.
The definitive history of presidential lying, revealing how our standards for truthfulness have eroded-and why Trump\'s lies are especially dangerous If there\'s one thing we know about Donald Trump, it\'s that he lies