🧩 BND Motif Index · M1798
Lying is a prerequisite
The liar's hire: an aide or spokesperson said to have got the job because she will lie for the boss, judged by how well she lies and dropped when she lies badly, his people picking up the lying from him.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 8claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 6claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Pants on fire
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (2 left-leaning, 0 center, 1 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
- crossover
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump donor files defamation lawsuit against Guilfoyle 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-17
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “Scott Jennings is a liar who acts as a job interviewer for Donald Trump.” 2
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-17 “Katie Zachariah was removed as press secretary because she is a bad liar.” 2
Retold online 6
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-19 “An individual is exhibiting the same delusions, lying, and irrational behavior as Donald Trump.”
- 2026-10-17 “A woman is a fraud and a liar who would have been a perfect fit for the Trump administration.”
- 2026-10-16 “A woman is a liar whose ability to live a lie makes her exquisitely qualified for the Trump administration.”
- 2026-10-14 “The new appointee is an unconvincing and transparent liar who must embrace deception to succeed in her job.”
- 2026-10-06 “She is a highly skilled and relentless liar who will continue to lie effectively, especially in environments like Fox where lying is common.”
- 2026-10-06 “He lies constantly, every single day, while the people around him lie for him, feed him fake news and lap it up.”
M1798 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works