As many observers have pointed out, the similarities between the semi-fictional Charles Foster Kane and the semi-real Donald John Trump are unmistakable: the bombastic, bullying, privileged narcissist who inherited wealth, and falsely poses as the champion of the (white) working man.
They falsely claimed that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.
House Republicans, in particular, are literally stealing food from the mouths of babes — nutritional aid to pregnant women and very young children is one of the items on their cutting block — so they can pose, falsely, as deficit hawks.
When Mr. Abdulmutallab was refused a new student visa to enter Britain in May 2009, the officials have said, the rejection was because his bid involved a "bogus college" of a kind often used by migrants seeking to evade Britain's border controls by posing falsely as students, not because he was regarded as a terrorist threat.
Lowe was immediately arrested by surprised rebels, but they released him when they determined – falsely, as events would prove – that he posed no threat.
"AT&T's filing is not a serious effort to obtain relief from this court, but rather, is designed to cause the company competitive and commercial harm by falsely accusing it of misconduct at a time when the company is posed to emerge from bankruptcy," MCI said in its filing.
After McKelvie publicly raised questions about Barbara Hearn's appointment, she falsely accused him of posing as a female blogger who had been causing her distress.
In May, an affiliate of Purdue Pharma, Purdue Frederick, pleaded guilty to a felony charge that it misbranded the drug by falsely claiming to doctors and patients for six years that the long-acting narcotic posed a lower risk of abuse and addiction than those competing painkillers.
One report falsely suggested that Merkel – along with the Greens, a favorite fake news target – had posed for a selfie with one of the terrorists behind the March 2016 attacks on an airport and subway station in Brussels.
Those hollow values are present in the countless editorials at political organs like the Washington Post which falsely argue that we can't afford to preserve and expand Social Security and Medicare, or pose false choices between help at the dawn of life or fair play at its sunset.
