Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

JD Vance's willingness to create stories’ to grab attention hinted at a new frontier in post-truth America .

From his inauguration on, Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his four years in the White House .

From 2011 , he was a leading promoter of the false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya and therefore not eligible to be president.

Donald Trump and JD Vance are both people who are fully immersed in the information ecosystem of the far right.

Their lies originate from and are legitimised by a rightwing media ecosystem that now includes X, formerly Twitter , owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk , who has endorsed Trump , hosted an interview with him.

Michael Steele said: 'There’s nothing worse than a desperate racist man who cannot control the woman in front of him who happens to be African American . Cannot control the conditions around him that have changed the tightening of the political race for the presidency. “Cannot control what people are saying about him, the fact that Republicans are now coming out and speaking against a second Trump term and are creating lanes in which we are willing to support the Democrat over Donald Trump because he is that bad and that dangerous.”.