Greg Sargent: Trump’s lies about the Russia probe devolve into absurdity

Thursday morning, President Donald Trump floated a series of big lies about the Russia investigation. They aren’t normal or conventional lies. They are profoundly absurd exercises in up-is-downism — that is, enormous, preposterously audacious falsehoods that run directly contrary to facts that are widely known and ascertainable with great ease.Which is the whole point.First Trump quoted Rush Limbaugh saying that the FBI never told Trump that the Russians tried to infiltrate his campa