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During a panel discussion about President Donald Trump\u2019s embarrassing switcheroo to avoid Iranian attacks (while leaving aides and reporters to take the blow), Bulwark Editor Sam Stein could not subdue a tirade on the president\u2019s consummate lying.<\/p>\n

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Stein\u2019s explosion preceded a clip of Trump unleashing yet another legion of lies before a Tuesday night press gaggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe country is doing well,\u201d Trump said, ignoring bad job reports and consumer and voter polls. \u201cIran is going fine \u2014 going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it. Nobody else, only us. Our Navy is unbelievable and things are going great for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the only true statement there, Sam, is that the Navy is unbelievable,\u201d said \u201cDeadline: White House guest host Alicia Menendez on Wednesday. \u201cEverything else \u2014 Iran is not going great. The Strait of Hormuz is not going great. And nothing is as the president described, being smuggled in a catering truck with your Diet Coke valet. Is that supposed to express confidence to the American people, from an administration that purports to be the most transparent administration in American history?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the underlying thread that ties all this together, which is dishonesty,\u201d said Stein \u201cI mean, I couldn’t agree more with \u2026 [panelist] Carol [Leonnig]. Like, obviously it was a serious enough threat that the president should have been moved, that a decoy flight was totally acceptable. The Secret Service made a determination. No one should begrudge the president for getting on the catering truck, as silly as that is, and going to this other military aircraft, you can even make the case that a bit of sort of deception was probably necessary in order to make sure that nothing leaked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever,\u201d raged Stein, \u201cthere is a widespread lack of honesty and transparency and outright lying that is accompanying the administration throughout this. And Carol is too kind to say it because she’s a good person. But when she initially reported that they had to switch from the Qatari jet to the Air Force One \u2026 the White House was very public in saying that she was a liar. They did. They went out there and said, \u2018she’s a liar.\u2019 And it turns out she was right and they were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that’s just the M.O. for this administration,\u201d said Stein. \u201cAnd you saw with President Trump last night where he’s saying,\u2019 oh, we control the state of Strait of Hormuz. We do not. There’s nothing going through the Strait of Hormuz. Eight ships, when there used to be 130! Things in Iran are fine? They are not. We are a couple of days before the 60-day target for the MOU, when we’re supposed to have a negotiated a settlement. No one’s acting like that’s going to happen. Things are not going well, but they’re asking you to believe that the sky is green, that two-plus-two is five. And there was no security threat to air force One.\u201d<\/p>\n

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