06/11/2017
Day 140: The Former FBI Chief Uses The “L” Word
by Lee Kotner, writer of The Perfidy Report: Keeping an Eye on the Bastards. A poetic documentation of the Occupant’s first year.
No one says it
anywhere in Washington.
One tells an untruth.
One has misspoken.
One’s words are misleading
or one is misrepresenting the facts.
But we heard it yesterday
in public testimony
from a private citizen
a month out of his job
as head of the FBI,
in the halls of Congress
in front of everyone
in the country
who cared to tune in.
The President lied.
The President is a liar.
We’re not talking about
the way politicians
routinely bend truth
to sound like something else,
or how they disagree with
irrefutable facts if
it doesn’t suit their agenda,
or how they say one thing
to this set of constituents
and another to those
—though let’s call that what it is, too.
Best, it comes from a man
who has spent his life
ascertaining lies and sniffing out liars,
who smelled one
the first time
he sat in a room alone
with the President of the United States.
The next morning
the President says he is vindicated.
The President says
the former head of the FBI
is a liar.
Two untruths do not make a reality.
