世上最誠實的高官
- 紫桂 Purple Laurel
- Nov 3, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2020
（本文 曾刊載於 2020-11-03《明報》加西版 無心的約會 專欄）
可惜諾貝爾獎沒有「世上最誠實的高官」獎項，否則，從哈佛大學法律博士畢業的美國第 70任國務卿米高˙蓬佩奧（Michael Richard Pompeo），一定當之無愧，將百多萬美元獎金，袋袋平安。
互聯網上流傳多段視頻 ，記錄了他在美國德薩斯州 Texas A&M University 大學的問答環節時，自豪地說："I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. " 「我曾經是中央情報局的局長。我們說謊；我們欺騙；我們偷竊。我們有整套的訓練課程。」對所作所為直認不諱，真的不愧是秉承藉著謊稱因為「有大殺傷力武器」而入侵伊拉克的優良傳統。更難得的是，台下聽眾的一輪掌聲，不以為忤。
所謂「上有好者，下必有甚焉」。為免引述外媒偏頗，據美國 The Washington Post 華盛頓郵報的報導：自上任以來，經比對事實查證後，他的老細特朗普已作了逾兩萬次的虛假或錯誤引導陳述。相信大家對美國總統疫情發佈會的「到四月病毒會突然消失、口罩無用、口罩是有病的人才戴的、注射消毒水殺死病毒、確診人數多只因檢測做得多」等偉論，都記憶猶新。又例如特總月前宣稱加拿大人很希望恢復通關，事實上，據多個民意調查，八至九成加拿大人都希望繼續封關。難怪蓬卿青出於藍，講大話當食生菜。
蓬佩奧天生異稟，面皮厚過城牆，有勇有謀，講大話唔眨眼，坦白得可愛。而且身為基督徒，完全不怕生時說謊，死後會被審判，可能會下地獄，根本天生就是吃這行政治飯的。世界各地無腰骨「敢做唔敢認」的政棍，真係唔恨得咁多，真的要虛心學習一下。怪不得人說：「人無恥，便無敵」。
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Ex-CIA director Pompeo: 'We lied, we cheated, we stole'
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment."
The Washington Post
Analysis
President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims
The Fact Checker is keeping a running list of the false or misleading claims Trump says most regularly. Here’s what you need to know. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
By Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly
July 13, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. PDT
It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker’s database, an average of 12 claims a day.
But on July 9, just 440 days later, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day over a 14-month period, which included the events leading up to Trump’s impeachment trial, the worldwide pandemic that crashed the economy and the eruption of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.
The coronavirus pandemic has spawned a whole new genre of Trump’s falsehoods. The category in just a few months has reached nearly 1,000 claims, more than his tax claims combined. Trump’s false or misleading claims about the impeachment investigation — and the events surrounding it — contributed almost 1,200 entries to the database.
The notion that Trump would exceed 20,000 claims before he finished his term appeared ludicrous when The Fact Checker started this project during the president’s first 100 days in office. In that time, Trump averaged fewer than five claims a day, which would have added up to about 7,000 claims in a four-year presidential term. But the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
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