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'Golf was cool': Famed sportswriter  unloads on 'greasy orange splotch' Trump

Trump’s Golf Lies Are Not Trivial. They Are the Operating System.The Source, BrieflyThe reporting here is about Rick Reilly’s public mockery of Donald Trump after a video appeared to show a caddy helping him replace a ball during a golf round. Reilly used the moment to attack Trump’s broader habit of inflating scores, inventing championships, and lying with casual, serial confidence.Cheating Is the PointThis is not a story about golf etiquette. It is a story about a man for whom rules are decorative and truth is negotiable. The relevant fact is not whether a golf score matters in the…

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