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Trump lied his way all the way into the last month of the 2016 presidential election before the New York Times deigned to use the words “lie” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence.

Trump lied his way all the way into the last month of the 2016 presidential election before the New York Times deigned to use the words “lie” and “Donald Trump” in the same sentence.

If a man, any man, deigned to render judgment on your looks, your behavior, your waist size, your lifestyle, or the tenor of your voice, there was an expectation that you, as a woman, were to take his opinion seriously.

“What pretty skirts,” she deigned to say, looking away.

Nor, for similar political reasons, has Netanyahu deigned to pay even lip service to the notion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even after Saudi leaders said they would resume talks toward “normalized” relations with Israel if he merely endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state as a goal, in principle, at some time in the future.