Who cares about the pool, it’s a distraction of the most obvious kind.

What I’m wondering now is whether the USA can recover from this utter disconnection of the executive from truth and reality.

There is now a undeniable precedent of just lying continuously while in office, to essentially no consequence.

This sets a new floor for what you can do while in power. How this doesn’t break US American politics durably, I don’t know.

Edit: well this is on topic: https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold