Robert A. Rees: Trump is a war president. At war with the truth.

“The first casualty of war is truth.” — AeschylusDonald Trump, in an effort to marshal the specter of war to support his increasingly unlikely bid for a second term in office, has begun to call himself a “war president,” based on the evidence of a war he seems disinclined to fight. While scientists are warning us of that the coronavirus is a siege that will be survived only by pulling up the drawbridges and “sheltering in place,” Trump is waxing sentimen