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  • I am here under oath to answer

  • the committee's questions truthfully

  • and to offer the American people what

  • I know about President Trump

  • Michael Cohen is a guy who is going to

  • prison in two months for lying

  • to Congress.

  • I don't believe that Michael Cohen is capable

  • of telling the truth.

  • You're a pathological liar.

  • I have lied.

  • But I am not a liar.

  • Michael Cohen's credibility was on trial

  • during his momentous hearing.

  • His testimony if believed could have

  • major implications to the Trump presidency.

  • He's only been threatened by the truth.

  • So how do we ourselves decide this proven

  • liar is telling the truth?

  • You can't. This is Professor

  • and author David Smith.

  • He literally wrote the book on lying.

  • I write on this kinda $%%$ all the time here.

  • So we decided to ask him how can we know for certain

  • if Cohen is telling the truth.

  • There is no objective foolproof way of

  • telling whether someone is lying

  • or not,

  • especially someone who's skilled in the art of impression

  • management by his own admission Michael

  • Cohen has lied for Donald Trump

  • for ten years.

  • He knows how to handle

  • impression management.

  • And someone very skilled in this craft could easily

  • pass say a polygraph test

  • or body language checks polygraph

  • detects stress

  • it doesn't detect lies.

  • There's no real science of body

  • language. Someone who seems calm

  • self-possessed and self-assured may

  • just be a very very good liar.

  • We can't place our

  • hopes in science delivering

  • a foolproof way of determining

  • whether or not someone is telling the truth.

  • So how do we ever know who's telling

  • the truth who's not?

  • Their word just isn't good enough.

  • We need evidence we need corroboration,

  • we need documentation.

  • Luckily for Cohen There's a lot of documentation

  • and providing the committee today

  • with several documents a copy of the

  • check Mr Trump wrote from his personal

  • bank account. Copies of financial statements

  • and copies of letters I wrote at Mr.

  • Trump's direction.

  • But even hard evidence can also be open to

  • interpretation scrutiny

  • and reasonable doubt.

  • Obviously Mr. Chairman,

  • the witnesses may produce documents suggest

  • incriminates the president.

  • Yet he lies to banks all of those

  • lies were done on fraudulent documents

  • documents that he

  • forged.

  • Nothing he says or produces has any

  • credibility.

  • Even something as objective as an audio recording

  • is subject to reasonable doubt,

  • making people question what they're hearing

  • and what they're seeing.

  • The fact is the president does bring up cash

  • but he says don't pay

  • with cash! Listen to the tape.

  • It says cash.

  • We live in a world where spin

  • and the media is pervasive people find

  • it difficult to know what to believe.

  • We are in search of the truth.

  • The president has made many statements of his own

  • and now the American people have a right

  • to hear the other side.

  • They can watch Mr. Cohen's testimony

  • and make their own judgment.

  • It turns out that judging for ourselves may

  • maybe the worst way to find the truth.

  • So some people think just go

  • with your gut.

  • Unfortunately that's a very treacherous

  • way of determining whether someone

  • is lying or not because it plays right into

  • confirmation bias.

  • Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret

  • evidence as confirmation of one's

  • existing beliefs.

  • So if you're the sort of person who wants

  • to see Donald Trump taken down

  • you're going to naturally be inclined

  • to give Michael Cohen

  • the benefit of the doubt.

  • Despite his track record.

  • By the same token if you're a fan

  • of Donald Trump then you

  • are going to be inclined to be very very

  • suspicious of the truthfulness

  • of Cohen's claims.

  • This force is so strong that we'll believe

  • just about anything to enforce our worldview

  • will even lie to ourselves.

  • And there may be no better example of this than

  • Cohen's testimony.

  • Replublican members of Congress used their time to discredit Cohen

  • based on his history of deception.

  • There's no truth with you whatsoever.

  • That's why.

  • That's important to you to look up here

  • and look at the old adage that our moms taught us-

  • liar liar pants on fire.

  • No one should ever listen you

  • and give you any credibility.

  • And Democrats thanked Cohen speaking the

  • truth regarding Trump.

  • You want to talk about an agenda?

  • My friends on the other side of the aisle refuse

  • to bring any of these people up before the committee.

  • So today for the first day we have

  • one witness who voluntarily

  • is coming forward to testify.

  • Your side ran away from the truth.

  • And were trying to bring it to the American people

  • when.

  • Our precious world views are under threat.

  • It's so easy for us to lie to

  • ourselves.

  • To form a false picture.

  • To let our biases take over.

  • As human beings were natural born liars.

  • We're all biased we're all self-serving we

  • all deceive ourselves

  • and only way that we can really guard

  • against this is to understand

  • that we are all vulnerable to self-deception.

  • The entire Trump presidency is on the line

  • with Cohen's testimony.

  • And regardless of his veracity it looks like this

  • hearing has done little more than push two opposing

  • worldviews deeper into the sand.

I am here under oath to answer

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誰かが嘘をついているかどうかの見分け方 (How to Tell If Someone Is Lying)

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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