Want to hide bad actions? Bad grammar is the best way to do it

Trump has been using more donations to pay his legal fees. To keep that information hidden, he released a statement that's so boring and confusing, it's easy to miss.

“If you want to do something evil,” John Oliver once said on HBO’s Last Week Tonight, “put it inside something boring.”

What could be more boring than bad grammar?

He continued: “Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf inside the iTunes User Agreement, and you’d just go, ‘Agree.’”

Donald Trump’s communications team must have been paying attention (to Oliver, that is; hopefully not Mein Kampf, but we’ve always got questions).

Sounds like something his campaign would want to respond forcefully to, right? His spokesperson Steven Cheung responded with a statement full of abstruse legalese that any casual reader is bound to get lost in.

Which is exactly the point.

Read the full column at Inquirer.com.