There’s no doubt every human being with a mature cognitive ability has lied at some point in their lifetime. That’s an irrefutable statement you can take to the bank every day and twice on Sundays. The problem isn’t that humans lie. It’s what they lie about and why they lie.
I write about lying today because I want to interrogate why President Donald Trump is such an irredeemable lair. The man suffers from a pathos – an incurable pathology for lying.