Credibility Issues Quotes
He had won the previous election but the old ruler and dictator, Robert Mugabe, refused to relinquish power. After massive economic boycotts that hurt the nation badly, Tsvangirai and Mugabe agreed to a power sharing model where Tsvangirai would be the prime minister but Mugabe would be president with the military, police, and justice departments reporting directly to the President, so Tsvangirai ended up as no more than a figure head. He and his followers reasoned that at the next election Mugabe would be ousted. But Mugabe with the police and military did not allow Tsvangirai to campaign in the rural areas where Mugabe had most of his voting strength. And then on the day of the election, Mugabe’s henchmen disenfranchised over 1 million voters in the cities where Tsvangirai had his voting strength. So Tsvangirai could not improve in the country side and his vote count in the cities was much less than previously, so Mugabe claimed to have won the election.
Sullivan observes that so many of his falsehoods are so easy to demontrate as false, that they appear to be stupid. There are others who believe that the "stupid lies" are not so stypid but is an attempt to keep everyone's attention on his lies and exaggeragations and wheterh or not they are true, that the public begins to distrust almost all information as lies oro manipulations, and meanwhile no one focuses on the fact that where Trump is trying to keep his procedureal campaign promises, was failing to keep the effects promises like everyone will have better health coverage, that he will reduce the "outrageous" pharmaceutical costs, that he will defeat ISIS, that Blacks will have a much better standard of living, that crime rates will come down, and many others,
