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Commentary: Why are Trump's lies not ruinous to him? Because truth can be in the eye of the beholder

I would like to think that Donald Trump has finally told one lie too many. He searched high and wide for someone to blame when his policy of taking children away from parents caught surreptitiously crossing the border backfired, big time.

Before throwing in the towel and ending the practice with a scratch of his pen, Trump said Democrats had to clean up the mess. Their legislation created it, he claimed.

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