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BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LARGELY FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MANY YEARS, LAUGHING ALL THE WAY, WILL START FLOWING INTO THE USA,” he wrote on Truth Social.

What’s so TRUE about lies! The illusion of truth effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to believe that a statement is true if they’ve heard it repeated many times. This effect can occur even if the statement is false, implausible, or from a questionable source. This is a literary technique that was used by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister.

He can put it in all caps, he can post it 10 times a day, but by the admission of his own Treasury secretary, it’s American businesses who are writing the check for those billions. Consumers are already feeling the squeeze, and it stands to get a lot worse.

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Let’s be Frank…

Efforts to undermine King’s platform are not new, and are often aimed at sanitizing his message, which in his later years included an economic- and social-justice agenda that drew the ire of the U.S. government. But the prospect of generating scandalous headlines around King in 2025 would do more than distract—it stands to provide new and useful propaganda to America’s enemies.

Perhaps the bigger lesson from Trump’s latest gambit is this: King remains a global giant that stops the world in its tracks when he speaks, even if against his wishes or without his consent. It was this way when he pushed for civil rights and voting rights, and later against the war in Vietnam and against systemic inequalities. It was this way at the time of his assassination in Memphis, where he was offering support to striking sanitation workers. And it continues to be that way, as the Trump administration, backed into a corner, has little qualms with potentially undermining King’s legacy.

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