Donald Trump’s 'whole life has been a lie': Analyst

Donald Trump, the leading US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, is a habitual liar and an “obnoxious” bigot who holds deep-rooted prejudice against minorities and women, a political analyst in New York City says.

“He lies continuously,” said Ian Williams, a senior analyst at Foreign Policy in Focus, a policy think tank based in Washington, DC.

“His whole life has been a lie and he’s totally shameless and a lot of Americans seem to appreciate this,” Williams told Press TV on Friday.

“He has mocked Hispanics, he has mocked black Americans, he’s now mocking disabled Americans, he has been totally chauvinist about women and the terrible thing is that his supporters actually love him for this and it says as much about the Republican voter base as it does about him,” he added.

Trump is also a “failed businessman” who has had the privilege of inheriting great wealth from his father, Williams asserted.

The increasingly inflammatory comments by Trump are causing party rivals to step up attacks against him and some conservatives to label him a "fascist."

The billionaire businessman’s rhetoric has become so belligerent that some political observers, even inside his party, are asking whether he is committed to democratic principles.

Trump has drawn strong criticism and disbelief from legal experts for saying that he would require American Muslims to register in a database in response to the Paris terrorist attacks.

In his latest controversial remarks, Trump apparently mocked New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski on Tuesday while defending his claim that Arab Muslims in New Jersey cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001 in New York.

Kovaleski has a congenital condition that affects joint movement.

Trump imitated Kovaleski’s movements as he was challenging recollections by the reporter and many others about the 9/11 aftermath.

Republican strategists are warning that the real estate tycoon could do long-term damage to their party, and that his nomination in the GOP primaries would essentially hand the White House to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Several establishment conservatives and presidential campaign advisers now appear to be uniting around the need to oppose Trump’s candidacy.

“He really is an obnoxious personality on every level…his ego and his personality, his arrogance, his assumptions based upon his inherited wealth that he is superior to everyone else,” Williams noted.

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