Prof. Eric Alterman discusses his book Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie—And Why Trump is Worse

(8/17/20) If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In his latest book “Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie—And Why Trump is Worse” professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and media critic for The Nation Eric Alterman asks how we ended up with such a pathologically dishonest commander in chief. Join us for a look at how we arrived in this age of alternative facts in the final installment of Leonard Lopate at Large’s three-part summer series on WBAI looking back at the presidency of Donald Trump.