The Message
Earlier today I was speaking with my oldest niece. She is in the middle of battling for the welfare and safe return of my great niece who will be 14. I will share more about that situation in another post due to the subject. But for now, I want to share my thought about leaders that lie and the message being delivered. When the leader of a major country lies — and not just in private, but boldly, publicly, shamelessly — the consequences are far greater than a few political headlines. When he trains others to lie with him, echoing “deny, deny, deny” as if it were a sacred commandment, something more dangerous seeps into the air we all breathe: a normalization of abuse, deceit, and the destruction of trust itself. The damage is not abstract. It isn’t tucked away in history books or hidden behind closed doors. It plays out in the living rooms of millions of homes where little girls sit watching, listening, learning. They see a man who continues to face allegations of sexual assault ...