EU must confront Donald Trump and his lies — he is a threat to democracy

It’s as clear as it can be that Donald Trump’s first instinct, in almost any situation, is to reach for a lie, writes Fergus Finlay

THEY used to call me a spin doctor. That was back in the day, and it was seldom meant as a compliment. In the eyes of the journalists who used the expression most freely, spin doctors were people (working in politics) who twisted the truth and manipulated journalists.

Always, of course, other journalists. I never actually met a journalist who confessed to me that they themselves had been manipulated or charmed by a spin doctor. There was one journalist who interviewed me about being a spin doctor, and wrote afterwards that I was one of the most manipulative people he’d ever met, because in person I seemed to him to be reasonably honest and straightforward, and that was proof positive of how sinister I must really be!