2018/10/26

Intentional Liar

Scaramucci Says Trump ‘Intentionally’ Lies to Inflame Opponents - Bloomberg:

Scaramucci, who’s promoting a new book, said answers by the media and Trump’s opponents to the president’s untruthful statements have been ineffectual. They respond like bullied schoolchildren pleading to hall monitors -- calling out Trump’s lies, which doesn’t work, he said.
“If someone’s taking your lunch money in the cafeteria, if you call the hall monitor, it’s not going to help you,” Scaramucci said. Instead, “you’ve got to defeat the person at the table with your peer group.”
I get the diagnosis but not the prescription. Does he think the media and his opponents should gang up on Trump? Perhaps they should stop reporting his actual lies and instead replace the specifics of each lie with an assertion that "Donald Trump lied"? What exactly is he recommending they all do?