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The radical honesty of Donald Trump
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A bleak honesty about how the world really works has always been core to US President Donald Trump's political appeal.
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The Economist
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Although US President Donald Trump lies a lot, even by the standards of American presidents, a bleak, transgressive honesty about how the world really works has always been core to his peculiar political appeal: Politicians are corrupted by big donations; only stupid people pay higher taxes than they can get away with; he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote. “You think our country’s so innocent?” he once replied when asked about the murderous record of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr Trump’s forthrightness about his interest in Venezuela
