You've got to hope that the politicians aren't lying to you.
"It wouldn't be the first time a politician lied."
A few minutes later, he repeated his view that politicians lie.
They already assume that your politicians and envoys lie as a matter of policy.
All politicians are lying, brown nosing toads, so hard luck.
Given the last few years in Washington, any politician who wants a zone of privacy shouldn't lie publicly.
But athletes, actors and politicians lie about such stuff every day.
Q: How do you know when a politician is lying?
Germany's lower house of Parliament has created a committee to determine whether politicians lied in an election.
Our politicians either already knew this pain was coming and lied or were grossly incompetent.