How Much Will Trump Supporters Swallow?

The fact that President Donald Trump is parroting the Russian line about Ukraine starting the war does not surprise me. His bromance with Vladimir Putin is well documented. And that fact that such a claim flies in the face of all the known facts, the truth, also does not surprise me. Putin has said the Russians launched the war because Nazis controlled Ukraine, and that Ukraine did not have a right to exist as an independent nation.

And then there’s Trump’s estrangement from the truth. He goes after “fake news” because some reporters have the audacity to point out when he’s either lying or just wrong. Unfortunately, millions of his followers were just buy into that. Co-President Elon Musk is doing the same thing. All that is damaging to our democracy.

What I am interested in is how many people, especially Trump’s faithful, buy into his new claim that Ukraine started the war. All the evidence, all the facts, all the statements by Putin point to Russian responsibility for the carnage.

How can Trump have any credibility with anyone when he is willing to throw a valiant little country under the bus for no apparent reason other than to make nice with a vicious dictator who does not seem to care about the lives he is destroying, his own people’s as well as Ukrainians?

I would love for someone to explain to me how they can still support him in the face of such an outlandish and destructive lie.