When Can you let People get away with Bullshit?

Carol Smaldino
4 min readJan 24, 2024

Well, let’s say that technically, according to the judgment of courts and the rule of law, Donald Trump did not win the 2020 Election. Would that mean saying he did win, acting like it, and encouraging gobs of people to violent protest at the Capitol, was in fact “bullshit”?

Yesterday Trump said, “You can’t let people get away with bullshit,” regarding Nikki Haley. He continued: “And when I watched her in the fancy dress ― that probably wasn’t so fancy ― come up, I said, ‘What’s she doing? We won.”

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Carol Smaldino

A psychotherapist, a New Yorker living between Colorado and Italy (in good times) I am passionate about the role of emotions and awareness for evolving,sanity