Online Public Relations Thoughts

Former president Trump abruptly ended a phone call with NPR news when the host pressed him on his election lies.  Trump repeated his falsehoods during the nine minutes he was on air and rejected the host's statements that Trump's beliefs were false.  It is hard at this point, more than a year after the election and also after a number of ballot audits, that Trump can be making the same case.  Not only that, but Trump is still condemning any Republican who dares say Trump lost the election.  He is either brazen or so far lost in self-regard that he cannot accept his fate.  Either way, he is afraid of the truth.  That he carries the majority of Republicans in the Congress and Senate with him in his falsehoods is a testimony to his power in the party.  The more politicians side with him, the worse it gets for Republicans and the country.  It is the worst kind of messaging.