{"id":281,"date":"2020-09-14T07:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/w\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-09-15T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:28:50","slug":"elizabeth-cook-lynn-weve-known-from-the-beginning-that-donald-trump-is-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/14\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-weve-known-from-the-beginning-that-donald-trump-is-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: We&#8217;ve known from the beginning that Donald Trump is a liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2000\" data-attachment-id=\"292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/14\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-weve-known-from-the-beginning-that-donald-trump-is-a-liar\/donaldtrump\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donaldtrump.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"donaldtrump\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donaldtrump-1024x819.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donaldtrump.jpg\" alt=\"donald trump\" class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-292\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=figure-caption>President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House on July 4, 2020. Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/50083354531\/>Andrea Hanks \/ White House<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<h1>Elections have consequences<\/h1>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, September 14, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nBarack Obama told us this way back in 2008.<p><\/p>\r\nNow, we witness Donald Trump\u2019s failures for the last four years and are enraged because over half the population of this country is unemployed, people are being shot by the police in the streets and even the U.S. Post Office is under attack.<p><\/p>\r\nIt is not only that nearly 200,000 lives in America have been lost by Trump\u2019s incompetence  &#8212; it will just go away, he says of the <a href=\/covid19\/>worst pandemic of our time, the COVID-19<\/a>. But, it is that we\u2019ve known from the beginning that he is a liar.<p><\/p>\r\nIt didn\u2019t have to be this bad, we are told, as we send our kids back to school because children are \u201calmost immune.\u201d He accuses everyone from Democrats to the Chinese for conspiring against him and he fires anyone who disagrees with him about anything. Half of his cabinet is under indictment or in hiding.<p><\/p>\r\nKeeping up with this awful news makes us all think about our vote in the next coming presidential election.<p><\/p>\r\nWe must take this election seriously.<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe understand that our actions on July 3rd and the national media attention garnered deeply embarrassed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and Sheriff Thom,\u201d said Tilsen. \u201cAnd what we are now facing is total backlash.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHTBjuusKN\">https:\/\/t.co\/wHTBjuusKN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NDN Collective (@ndncollective) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndncollective\/status\/1296831667932471296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe television pictured the White House lawn the other day as a thousand white Americans (without masks, by the way, and crammed right next to each other) cheered for this selfish and entitled law breaking President as he shoots off his mouth as well as wild fireworks to accept his RNC\u2019s nomination for a second term.<p><\/p>\r\nThe stakes are high. Most of us are hoping for a new administration and we are asking each other: what kind of voter am I? What kind of voter are you?  How did we get like this??? I\u2019ll be honest. I am not a Republican nor am I the most informed voter in the world. But, I ponder that question. Who are we and how did we get here?<p><\/p>\r\nThere are all kinds of voters,  as we know. There is the \u201cswing voter\u201d. I am not one of them. They are susceptible to the hype and often say \u201cI vote for the candidate, not the Party.\u201d They are usually \u201chobbyists.\u201d Yet, they often follow the news. They devote significant time to keeping up with the political dramas, cheering and booing at appropriate times. They make huge contributions to the church to keep them safe from a woman\u2019s right to make her own decisions about child bearing. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThey join an e-mail list and sometimes write a letter to the editor. They cringe from protests in the streets by their neighbors, and they want to give more power to the police to arrest those who disturb the peace.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<DIV class=row>\r\n<DIV class=\"col-md-6 align-self-start\"><IMG class=\"img-fluid wow fadein\" \r\nsrc=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2011\/11\/22\/nsn-cooklynn.jpg\"><\/IMG><\/DIV>\r\n<DIV class=\"col-md-4 align-self-end\"><FIGCAPTION class=figure-caption>Elizabeth \r\nCook-Lynn. Courtesy photo<\/FIGCAPTION><\/DIV><\/DIV><p><\/p>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThen there are the \u201cindependents\u201d. They often treat politics as a past-time instead of taking government seriously and devoting themselves toward seeking the knowledge to do the right thing. They often are disgruntled and these days they are thinking that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can be trusted with the power of governing. They believe in the Reagan-ism that has told them that \u201cGovernment IS the problem, not the solution.\u201d Thanks to Trump\u2019s bungling, Reagan may be benefitting from a wave of nostalgia.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nMore than we care to admit, there is the influence of the \u201cwhite evangelical\u201d voter. Trump was at the pinnacle of his media power, boastful and a star of \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d television show when the evangelicals became his faithful admirers.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n When he made his foray into the Midwest from his mid-Manhattan Tower, he bonded with those who often called themselves the \u201cvalues voters.\u201d Their families had been here in the Midwest since 1880, and trump made his promise to them: he said, \u201cI will tell you now, Christianity is under tremendous siege and we have the power but we don\u2019t exert it.\u201d He promised them he would change that! And they bought his promise, because they wanted to keep their country the \u201cway it was.\u201d Church. Farm, Family, and mostly, no abortion!!\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"row nativesunnewstoday\"><DIV class=col-md-3><A href=\"\/m.asp?url=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><IMG \r\nclass=\"img-fluid wow fadein\" \r\nsrc=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" \r\nitemprop=\"image\"><\/A> <\/DIV>\r\n<DIV class=col-md-9>\r\n<H4><A href=\"\/m.asp?url=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS \r\nTODAY<\/A><\/H4>\r\n<P>Support Native media!<\/P>\r\n<P>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <A \r\nhref=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/elections-have-consequences\/>Elections have consequences<\/A><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn writes a column for The Native Sun News Today, in  Rapid City, South Dakota, She is a retired professor of Native Studies and has taught at Eastern Washington University, University of California-Davis and Arizona State University. She is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in Fort Thompson, South Dakota.<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We must take this election seriously.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[4,5,94,75,56,115,2,55,85,98],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-4","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-cook-lynn","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-native-vote","tag-republicans","tag-south-dakota","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-4x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/donaldtrump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}