One definition of a fabulist is a serial liar (the other is an Aesop-like creator of fables). Being a liar fabulist is about as far away as one can get from being fabulous. Thus, we come to the case of newly elected Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, chief beneficiary of Nashville-area gerrymandering. NewsChannel5 in Nashville revealed that Ogles lied about his college major, and he relayed fabulist fantasies about being an economist, the nature of his work at a think tank and being an internationally recognized sex trafficking expert.
Follow-up reporting exposed further lies, but the Ogles story struggles to gain traction in the shadow of George Santos, the Long Island Republican who lied about everything from his employment to his education to his heritage. He also faces potential criminal consequences for campaign finance chicanery.
Here, as elsewhere, we struggle under the legacy of Donald Trump lies, and our institutions for buttressing truth are crumbling. The Washington Post Fact Checker tallied 30,573 false or misleading Trump claims during his four years in office. That’s 21 erroneous claims a day, and the rate escalated to a climax during the Trump-inspired insurrection.
Tennessee congressmen choose to echo those lies. U.S. Reps. Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark Green, Diana Harshbarger, and John Rose all voted against state vote certification in the 2020 presidential election (they were fine with their own electoral results for the same...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge on Thursday refused to toss all claims against a sugar company accused in a putative class action of advertising its products as eco-friendly while giving t...