Why does President Donald Trump get a pass on telling the truth? As a political analyst and columnist, I guess I’m supposed to have all the answers, but I admit that I haven’t figured this one out yet.

Trump consistently says things that are easily disprovable, and yet there appear to be no consequences for him. He just plows ahead after saying things that would have derailed or discredited anyone else.

“I feel that I won Minnesota. I think I won it all three times. Nobody’s won it … since Richard Nixon won it many, many years ago. I won it all three times, in my opinion, and it’s a corrupt state, a corrupt voting state, and the Republicans ought to get smart and demand on voter ID,” Trump said at a Jan. 9 White House event. “They ought to demand, maybe, same-day voting and all of the other things that you have to have to safe election. But I won Minnesota three times that I didn’t get credit for. I did so well in that state, every time. The people were, they were crying. Every time after. That’s a crooked state.” 

If I said Trump won Minnesota three times, I’d be ridiculed, forced to issue an immediate correction and no one would take me seriously again. Trump has never won Minnesota. He lost by 4 points in 2024, 7 points in 2020 and 1.5 points in 2016. There’s no evidence of serious allegations of voter misconduct. In this case, it’s just the president jumping to conclusions, believing that because of alleged financial fraud in the Somali community, there must have been electoral fraud that contributed to his three losses. 

Not only does Trump continue to complain........

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