Lie Detector

There are some people whose reputations seem impervious to the charge of being a liar. Donald Trump, who remains the early frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, is perhaps the most infamous of them.

His presidency was marked by a mounting nationwide realization that there is little recourse to be had against a popular political leader who tells blatant untruths, repeatedly. The exercise of pointing out his tens of thousands of false statements came to seem futile, almost beside the point, as it did nothing to turn his followers against him,...