Specie of consent

Robert Frank, studying a roll of 35mm negat-ives in 1956, raises the question of how information is processed for purposes of communication. Now we ponder the American President, and this subject of his mastery.

Ukrainians demonstrating in Kiev in 2015, against their corrupt State prosecutor and his cronies, raise the question of why the American President would claim that his own domestic political rival had labored to quell an investigation there which had never taken place. 

Which is the greater riddle: how, with the most omniscient intelligence service in the world at his instantaneous disposal, the American President ignores their information in favor of lunacies disseminated by his flock; or, how he literally does not choose to share information, if he can furnish psychotic stimulation, instead?

i    Wayne Miller, Magnum©

ii   Sergei Chuzavkov, AP/The New York Times©

iii  The New York Times©