On Trump, well I'll do my best to pick up the gauntlet and give my perspective from across the pond.
That the Russians conspired to put him in the Whitehouse is practically established. What the investigations are about are whether Trump actually colluded with said Russians or whether the Russians acted alone. If he had no part in it then fair enough, as you can't help if you were helped.
The lying is a curious case- I can sort of see where the "He hasn't lied about important stuff" comes in, but really I find what he does much more disturbing than other politicians. To be honest- it's difficult to put my finger on exactly why, but I'll try.
Trump lies in a very different way to other politicians.
Other politicians will lie tactically and conservatively and try to preserve their reputations (they actually honor truth as something to aim for at least). Trump in contrast appears to pathologically lie by default, cultivating a culture where the truth is meaningless or can't be known due to 'fake news' and any media can be dismissed as such.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.htmlHe pollutes the mainstream with so much rubbish it's like a bizarre propaganda tactic. I mean- lying about all the 'small' stuff is bad enough, but normalizing the lying is especially damaging. How can you scrutinize his political positions if they change all the time? How can you scrutinize anything about him if he doesn't acknowledge facts? How do you convince voters if they are convinced all (or a lot of) criticism is fake news?
Trump may not have tangibly wrecked anything (yet) but people are going crazy over the brazen smokescreen rather than all the subpar governing and all the supposedly 'minor' stuff gone awry. Truth is, I'd pick basically any previous president to govern more competently day to day, week to week.
I can't help but to think if all this bluster was not part and parcel of Trump he wouldn't be able to sustain his popularity.
The other part of why I dislike him is that he's clearly just a dishonorable person. Some of his business practices in the past have been clearly exploitative. The whole 'locker room talk' sexual assault episode. *Constant* dishonesty. Incredible narcissism. Other things. He basically acts like the most obnoxious 8 year old on the planet.