Trump’s legacy is the plague of extreme lies. Truth-based media is the vaccine | Richard Wolffe

The toxic politics of conspiracies and lies did not start four years ago and will live on beyond Trump. But we can protect ourselves and reward the truth

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Normal presidents start to think about their legacy long before the final weeks of their time inside the West Wing. But if there's anything we have learned from the lab rat experiment of the last four years, it's that Donald Trump is entirely abnormal.

Whether he knows it or not - and all the evidence suggests he knows nothing worth knowing - Trump's legacy is the toxic politics of lies: a permanent campaign of fabrications and falsehoods.