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Letter: So many lies

Editor, Gazette-Journal:When did honesty cease to matter? When did flagrant lies become acceptable in the American political system?I’m not even talking about exaggeration or cherry-picking facts. I mean outright lies.We all know about Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 election, the lie that led to a deadly insurrection on January 6, 2021. That’s the Big Lie but not the only lie.Donald Trump has also been found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsified business records. Falsified business records are lies, and the big ones are felonies. Trump was charged in his own hometown, convicted in the Manhattan Criminal Court.Trump told lies about FEMA in the middle of a natural disaster. He said Biden didn’t respond to Georgia’s governor, that FEMA disaster money was stolen to house illegal migrants, that people who lost homes would only get $750 from the government. All lies.So many lies, big and small. No, Trump did not cap insulin prices at $35 for seniors; that was Biden. No, schools are not p...

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