Is Trump a pathologic liar, is he dishonest, is he a racist, is he a con-artist?

We’ve had Trump as president for a couple of months and it has been one issue after another.

There are many questions that come up, and these are a few that come to mind:

Is Trump a liar?

Bernie Sanders seems to believe that Trump is a pathological liar. That is what he called him during the presidential campaign. He stills describes Trump in the same manner.

Politicians are often compared to used car salesmen of being dishonest. They promise things to their constituents knowing that they will not be able to keep them.

Trump seems to take that to a different level, he says things knowingly false.

He pointed out at an article in the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid with little or no reputation, about Ted Cruz’s father being involved in Kennedy’s assassination, even though he knew it was not true.

He said that President Obama had wired tapped the Trump Tower with no proof of it, then said that it was British Intelligence that Obama had used to wiretap the building provoking the British organization and the Prime Minister to ask for an apology.

He said that Obama was not born in the US, said that nobody knew him in college, high school. That he had sent spies to research about Obama’s birth certificate, and that they had unbelieve information about Obama, and never proved that Obama was a foreigner.

He denied having any business in Russia even though one of his sons said that they did business in that country.

He told his voters that he would take care of them with “great” healthcare and then admitted with Tucker Carlson from Fox News that they would be at a disadvantage, and would leave over 24 million people with no healthcare, many of them people who voted for him.

He said that he would not touch Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and now in his budget to Congress is cutting Medicaid in the order of 350 billion over ten years, destroying the program, and leaving people with no help.

Is Trump manipulative?

Trump believes in telling things to people what they want to hear.

Trump in his book the art of the deal says: “My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want.”

Trump believes in distracting people with things that are untrue, knowing that they will fall for them.

Is Trump a sociopath?

If we look at the meaning of sociopath: “a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience”, it seems it is describing Trump to perfection. Trump will do and say anything to grab attention, he says that all Mexicans are rapists, drug dealers, when that is absolutely false. A vast majority of Mexicans that have come to live in the US are hard workers, family people.

Is Trump a tyrant?

Tyrant: “any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically”. Couldn’t describe Trump better than that. He does not believe in the separation of powers in government. He has never had to respond to anyone except while he was working for his father.

He has tried to govern by executive order, undermining the values of the country, his office, and all institutions.

Is Trump a cheat, a con-artist?

If we look at his record, many of his businesses have ended in bankruptcy, from hotels, university, steaks, mortgage, airline.

We can see w at other fellow billionaires think of him. "I'm a New Yorker, and New Yorkers know a con when we see one." He also said that Trump was a “dangerous demagogue”.

Mark Cuban said: “Donald can talk for hours and say nothing of true substance. But every few sentences he is going to spout out Headline Porn that is going to fit in 140 characters or so and unquestionably have to be discussed by “The Political Shows”.”

Does Trump have an inferiority complex?

“An unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy caused by actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes marked by aggressive behavior in compensation.”

Since his inauguration he has been comparing himself with his predecessor, with the inauguration, that he had a bigger audience when the proof was the opposite, like I said previously, that Obama had wiretapped the Trump Tower, knowing that it was false, trying to repeal Obamacare, not because it helps the American people, and primarily his voters, but because he wants to erase Obama’s record, saying that he had a bigger electoral college than other recent presidents even though it was not true, saying that he would have won the popular vote if it not were because of 3 to 5 million votes of “illegal aliens”, even though governors, many of them republican, have said that there is no proof of irregularities at the voting booths.

Is Trump a racist?

“A person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.”

Trump has been endorsed by the KKK, even though it took many days to disavow that, the way he describes Mexicans, African-Americans, has had racist behaviors in the past as a landlord in New York for which he was fined by the federal government.

Is Trump dishonest?

Dishonesty is the fundamental component of a majority of offences relating to the acquisition, conversion and disposal of property (tangible or intangible) defined in criminal law such as fraud.

Again, it seems to describe Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump is the candidate to president since Harry Truman that did make public his taxes, first during the republican primary saying that they were under review by IRS, and that he would provide them if he became a candidate to president, and then just simply saying that they were under review by the IRS, and then last, when he became the president he finally admitted that he would never made them public, thus confirming that he had lied to the American public about ever making them public.

He never divested his businesses even though by law he should have.

He has appointed members of his family as members of his White House staff, thus breaking the law as the House Ethics Manual says that “Federal law, at 5 U.S.C. § 3110, generally prohibits a federal official, including a Member of Congress, from appointing, promoting, or recommending for appointment or promotion any “relative” of the official to any agency or department over which the official exercises authority or control.  The statute defines a relative, for these purposes, as "an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister."

At a hearing at the House Intelligence Committee on March 20^th 2017 the Head of the FBI James Comey testified that “The F.B.I. is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government — and whether there was any coordination.”

So how did we end with this individual in the White House that from the moment that he was sworn in has done everything to destroy the institutions of this country, including intelligence, putting allies in awkward positions because he has lied to them, with the exception of Vladimir Putin, for which he has always had positive things to say. One has wonder why.

November 2016’s election did not have the turnout of previous elections, thus helping republicans candidates across the country. Trump won the electoral college, but only won a 43% of the popular vote. He was not a majority candidate across the country.

We can see that while the republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives they will drag their feet to investigate, like they are doing with the Russia involvement in the last election, they will not chose to have a special prosecutor investigating not just the Russia involvement, but also Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Trump, Kushner, Manafort, and all his close allies and their contacts and business deals with the Russian government. If Hillary Clinton would have won the election we would still be talking about Benghazi, Whitewater, Clinton Foundation, etc.

We will have to wait for the midterm elections of 2018, to see if the people who go to the town hall meetings and complain about their healthcare being taken away, their rights eroded, their air and water polluted, and have the House change hands so that the American people can start investigating Trump, and all his dealings, his businesses, and if need be start impeachment procedures.