Why Lie About the Stranded Astronauts?

NASA would have brought the Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore home even if Biden had won reelection

Someone in the Trump administration must have been reading Walter Langer, a Harvard trained psychoanalyst who performed a psychoanalysis of Adolf Hitler in 1943. One of Langer’s conclusions: If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

It was with Langer’s words in mind that I read a social media post earlier today by President Donald Trump. The President proudly reposted a statement by a NASA spokesperson implying that Trump deserves the credit for “rescuing” the two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station after NASA determined that their Starliner Spacecraft was too dangerous for their return trip.

I was especially interested in the Fox News report on the astronauts’ return. Are we to believe that had Trump not been President, the astronauts would have been permanently abandoned in space? That sounds like nonsense because it is nonsense.

More importantly, spokesperson Bethany Stevens’ statement is a prime example of a big lie.

I wonder, how many people are ready to believe that President Biden was so indifferent to the lives of two astronauts that he had decided to abandon them?

Enough said.