Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump Will Struggle to Lie His Way Out of This One

A lifetime of untruthfulness collides with irrefutable evidence about illegal attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

August 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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Donald Trump is now the target of 78 criminal charges, courtesy of the latest federal indictment to land on his doorstep. The Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s most recent salvo, accusing the former president of myriad illegal attempts to overturn the 2020 election, is an unsparing and devastating document, firmly grounded in the fact pattern.

But facts, however damning, have never troubled Trump.