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    Commentary: Call it what it is — moral turpitude

    by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times Jan 21, 2019 3 minutes

    David Chase, the creator of "The Sopranos," once described his show as one in which all of the characters lied, all the time. "Everything that everybody says is untrue," Chase told me. "Complete falsehoods, self-justifications, rationalizations, outright lies, fantasies."

    In today's long-running mob drama, "The Trump Syndicate," lying is also the chief principle of discourse. The whoppers President Donald Trump routinely tells - 11 per day, by one count - are not exceptional. Without them, there'd be no dialogue.

    Late Thursday, BuzzFeed News reporters Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold

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