“After all, the devil fights under great disadvantages, and has to carry weights in all his races which are almost unfair.  He lies as a matter of course, believing thoroughly in lies, thinking that it is by lies chiefly that he must make his running good: and yet every lie he tells, after it has been told and used, remains as an additional weight to be carried.  When you have used your lie gracefully and successfully, it is hard to bury it and get it well out of sight.  It crops up here and there against you, requiring more lies; and at last, too often, has to be admitted as a lie, most usually so admitted in silence, but still admitted, -to be forgiven or not, according to the circumstances of the case.  The most perfect forgiveness is that which is extended to him who is known to lie in everything.  That man has to be taken, lies and all, as a man is taken with a squint, or a harelip, or a bad temper. He has an uphill game to fight, but when once well known, he does not fall into the difficulty of being believed.”

Anthony Trollope, Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Trump and his lawyers, Cohen and Giuliani, for all their many faults, at least no longer have to worry about falling into the difficulty of being believed.