Trump's Big CON: Staff Changes Can't Hide His Lack of Leadership, or Lies

UPDATE:  "Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant here, likes to tell his clients that there are 'three keys to credibility.'

'One, never defend the indefensible,' he says. 'Two, never deny the undeniable. And No. 3 is: Never lie.'

Would that politicians took his advice.

Fabrications have long been a part of American politics. Politicians lie to puff themselves up, to burnish their résumés and to cover up misdeeds, including sexual affairs. (See: Bill Clinton.) Sometimes they cite false information for what they believe are justifiable policy reasons. (See: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.)

But President Trump, historians and consultants in both political parties agree, appears to have taken what the writer Hannah Arendt once called “the conflict between truth and politics” to an entirely new level.

From his days peddling the false notion that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, to his inflated claims about how many people attended his inaugural, to his description just last week of receiving two phone calls — one from the president of Mexico and another from the head of the Boy Scouts — that never happened, Mr. Trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication on practically a daily basis."

Read The New York Times,  Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.

White House Chief of Staff John F. "Kelly can improve White House discipline but until he is empowered to can Bannon, prompt the president to replace incompetent secretaries and senior advisers with seasoned hands, instill an atmosphere where truth and integrity are paramount and get past the scrutiny of the special counsel, his changes will be limited and wholly insufficient."

Read the Washington Post, Kelly can’t fix Trump’s biggest problems.

In other words, Kelly can't change Trump