The Trump administration hadn’t even gotten a handle on “alternative facts” and lying, and now the nascent government is losing ground to sheer ineptitude and malfeasance creating real-life crises for people across the globe and right here in Aurora.

President Donald Trump and his top staff started out his tenure being caught in a series of bizarre lies that resulted in spokespersons and Trump himself doubling down on untruths, creating a unique drama in the White House.

The very fact this and other newspapers call out Trump’s fabrications as lies is a testament to the serious cloud this administration begins under. We’re not referring to Trump’s worrisome delusions about rain-stopping when he speaks or how much he is loved – that’s a separate problem. And we know spin and bull are stock-in-trade for pretty much all politicians. Lies are falsifications told to purposely and nefariously deceive the public. There’s no doubt that’s what Trump, spokesman Sean Spicer and adviser Kellyanne Conway are trying to do by lying about non-existent voter fraud, bizarre insecurities over inaugural crowd size, and the effect and intent of a ban on Muslim refugees, residents and visitors, a hasty ban pulled out of the asinine offices of incompetent political aides.

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