because he has told them that those folks are not to be believed. i m the only one to be believed. but some in his own party are losing faith. i ve got loyalty to people that i work with, but there s also limits to loyalty to just a political party when you see things happening. don t try to ever defend the indefensible with the president or explain the inexplicable because you just can t explain it. i m terrified that this level of lying is going to become the new norm in politics. is this the new norm? what impact will this ultimately have on the nation? the u.s. is still scarred by lies around watergate and vietnam. will president trump s falsehoods forever mark this era? how can we trust the next president? i think these are all challenges, and they re totally normal, and we have to remember that democracy is not given to us. democracy is something that we have to work really hard to
what i have done is i ve defeated isis. we have defeated isis, essentially. we defeated isis. isis was never really defeated. when the u.s. president lies on the world stage, he is doing more than trampling the truth. we captured many, many isis fighters. most of them came from europe. he s up ending world order. the united states has essentially gone from what i would describe as the principle architect and the principle general contractor of the world, the preserver of the world, to now we ve become the principle disruptor. trump s lies are a big part of that disrupting. richard haas was the director of planning under george w. bush. he s now the president of the council of foreign relations.
washington post does is fake. then you try to thrive in the confusion by the fact that you have the best spectacle and you have the best platform because you re the president of the country. could trump s persistent attacks on the press influence other leaders, other countries? our contacts are telling us in november 2017, a libyan tv station seized on a trump fake news tweet to try to discredit a cnn investigative report on slavery in libya. others around the world have gotten the message. they won t pay a price if they behave badly in this realm, and we re no longer setting an example that individuals around the world want to emulate. the president s weapon of choice for spreading falsehoods is twitter. the breadth and speed with which his comments travel is very different than anything we ve ever seen in presidential history. when we analyze all of the true and false verified news
put out a quick statement to warn people that this rumor is not true, not realized that the president of the united states caused the rumor in the first place. that was the original chart. even after the national weather service officials tweeted the correction, president trump persisted. that was what was originally suggested. giving a current update with an obsolete weather map. somebody, possibly the president, i don t know, somebody in the white house took a black magic marker and extended the cone, if you will, of warning into alabama. the infamous sharpie gate. it could have died there. it probably would have. yet sharpie gate extended into a fire storm when noaa released a statement publicly siding with the president. according to some media reports, trump s staff measured noaa to declare his lies to be true.
i ve said repeatedly that we need guidance from the president about what kind of proposal that would make a difference he would actually sign into law. white house blames the democrats and impeachment for the hold up, but trump has repeatedly blown up negotiations. donald trump told me specifically he is not interested in making deals people feel good about later. he doesn t want to go back and make a second deal with the same party. he s happy to take everything with himself and move on. we now have a paralyzed washington. it s very easy to work with because i make all the decisions. few decisions, few deals. perhaps that one of the reasons many house republicans are exiting. i didn t want to deal with the circus. there will be more departures. coming up the one word that scares him the most is recession.