Innocent until proven guilty: True until proven false: The presumption of innocence I guess Trump has turned into the presumption of truth – whether or not his facts are checkable, or whether it is a flit of his imagination. This poses problems for most individuals, because the amount of work required to “undo” one of Trumps accusations is enormous, and who has the time to Snope, FactCheck, JustTheTruth what he tweets or states. The first premise ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is brilliant, saves lives, though does let a few criminals go, but protects us against a State where we are all in jeopardy.  However, living by the second premise requires that everyone be as honest as possible, out of their own moral goodness, and of course we all know that is not happening in this epoch.  So when Trump (given here as an example and which has been seen on numerous occasions, and for whom truth seems a distant non-reality) says something in a tweet (which is a fart…. see previous post about tweets ) we have to go through countless steps, spend countless dollars, waste countless amounts of committee time, and get nothing in return except the gratification that he was delusional.  It is going to occupy so much time in the next four years, and cost so much of our own money that ultimately we must decide whether we need to just send him off to go tweet his alternative facts or make him hoe a straight row. We will all be the poorer, in so many ways because of his lack of frontal lobe discretions.