I was truly shocked when I read this. Never before, in his entire life, has Donald Trump refused to lie, but he just did!
President Joe Biden’s campaign knocked former President Donald Trump on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack for refusing to sign an Illinois loyalty oath that says he won’t advocate to overthrow the government.
The WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times reported Saturday that Trump did not voluntarily sign the loyalty oath this year when he and his campaign registered for the primary ballot in Illinois. The former president signed the oath in 2016 and 2020.
Candidates who sign the oath – including Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – attest that they “do not directly or indirectly teach or advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state or any unlawful change in the form of the governments thereof by force or any unlawful means.”
You have to give credit where credit is due. Trump could have done the convenient thing, because after all, as Hamlet said, “It’s as easy as lying”, something that has always come particularly easy for Trump. But the guy whose lawyers just told a court that it’s alright for a president to murder his political opponents apparently wants us to know that he’s got some principles, and he’s not going to lie about his plans to overthrow the government if given the chance.
But wait, maybe he’s playing some kind of eleven dimensional chess. Try to follow me: Maybe he figures that if he signed the statement, everyone would assume he was lying in doing so, because he always lies, and therefore, if he refused to sign it, we would assume that he is signaling that he isn’t going to overthrow the government because he hasn’t said that he won’t, because if he did say that he won’t, we’d assume he was lying. In fact, we’d know that he’s lying. So, maybe in his mind, he’s being really crafty, by lying by refusing to lie.
I’ll leave it to the reader to decide.
UPDATE: I sort of have comments working again. You can leave a comment and the site will show that there is a comment on the post. However, the comments don’t appear under the post. You have to click the link in the footer below the post that says you can read the comments at the “RSS feed”. I’m going to put this update on the next few posts I write, just to let people know. Assuming, of course, that anyone is reading this.
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