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The Case for Honest Leaders: Why the Republic Cannot Afford a Liar in Chief

I have spent the last several years writing about trust: what it is, how it is built, and what happens when it is spent. I have written about honor as a practical discipline, about corruption as a constitutional danger, about the bond market pricing the arithmetic rather than the promises. Underneath all of it is a question I keep coming back to, and it is the question a reader put to me recently: “How can I be sure Trump is telling the truth?” ...

September 8, 2026 · 10 min · 2001 words · Philip Huffman