Thomas L. Friedman: Only truth can save our democracy

On Saturday morning I was sitting in the kitchen with my wife, Ann, who was stirring her Cream of Wheat, when out of nowhere she surprised me with a question: “Is not lying one of the Ten Commandments?”I had to stop and think for a second myself, before answering: “Yes. Thou shalt not bear false witness.”The fact that the two of us even momentarily struggled over that question is, for me, the worst legacy of the Trump presidency.You remember the old joke? Moses comes down