The Towering Lies of President Trump

By Greg Weiner It's simple. Everything that benefits Mr. Trump is true and everything that inconveniences him is false. President Trump's taped admission to Bob Woodward that he deliberately misled Americans about the danger of the coronavirus makes him morally culpable in the ensuing tragedy. But Mr. Trump actually forfeited the battle against the pandemic long before it erupted in Wuhan, China in the first place. His tragic failures are the result of a systematic skepticism — an opportunistic ...