As Trump was greeting Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman there were some awkward questions posed by the media about the disappearance and assumed murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi. What we witnessed was Trump pushing aside the findings of the Biden Administration and the truth in order to present and validate the Prince in the interests of business and finance. We saw Trump attempt to brush the matter under the table as if it was meaningless and just troublesome ,claiming that his guest had no part in such proceedings despite the fact that it has been proved that orders for the murder of Jamal Kashoggi could only have come from the Prince Muhammed bin Salman himself because of the amount of power he has in his own country.
What we see many many times these days is the manipulation of truth for the purposes of character washing where business interests take precedent over the truth. Where truth is easily sidestepped for the sake of necessity.
Putin has based his whole propaganda machine on the very principled of avoiding and then burying the truth. Replacing truth with lies and propaganda. Putin even manipulates history to his own ends. Putin’s legitimacy is based solely on lies, misinterpretation of the truth and a rewriting of historical facts.