INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Trump of lying cut him some slack He really is trying to tell the truth, he says."I try, I do try," he told ABC television late Wednesday."I
always want to tell the truth
When I can, I tell the truth
And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that's different or there's a change, but I always like to be truthful," Trump
said.The Republican is famous for going off script during frequent impromptu press gatherings at the White House and at campaign rallies in
the final run-up to next Tuesday's midterm congressional elections.A billionaire former real estate magnate and reality TV host, Trump keeps
even his own aides on their toes with surprise announcements and headline-grabbing declarations.On frequent occasions, Trump also makes
statements that are clearly exaggerations, plain wrong or at minimum unaccompanied by evidence.These include his recent claim that "unknown
Middle Easterners" had infiltrated a group of several thousand poor Central Americans trying to walk through Mexico to attempt to immigrate
to the United States.After heavily suggesting that he was equating "Middle Easterners" with terrorists, Trump later conceded that there was
"no proof" of people from that region joining the migrant caravan at all.Even then, he added that "there could very well be."The Washington
Post has a project which attempts to track all of Trump's false claims
At the last count in September, the number was above 5,000.Trump has backup from top officials, though.His lawyer, former New York City
mayor Rudy Giuliani, told NBC in August that "truth isn't truth."Earlier, Giuliani had told CNN that "nowadays" facts depend on the eye of
the beholder.Arguably, the Trump administration's slippery grip on facts dates right back to his 2017 inauguration, when then-spokesman Sean
Spicer erroneously claimed that the crowd had been "the largest audience ever" at such an event.Top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway addressed
the ensuing controversy by announcing that Spicer was not lying
He was supplying "alternative facts."(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is
published from a syndicated feed.)
