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WAPO - "Trumps disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-disregard-for-the-truth-threatens-his-ability-to-govern/2017/01/24/945c81aa-e272-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpfacts805p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.56392d112360by Karen Tumulty
Donald Trump, having propelled his presidential campaign to victory while often disregarding the truth, now is testing the proposition that he can govern the country that way.
In the first five days of his presidency, Trump has put the enormous power of the nations highest office behind spurious and easily disproved claims.
He began with trivial falsehoods about the size of the crowds at his inauguration but has since escalated a graver claim that undermines the trustworthiness of the nations electoral system. In a White House reception Monday night for congressional leaders, Trump alleged that as many as 5 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election, denying him a popular-vote majority.
It was a claim that Trump had made in the aftermath of the election, with no evidence to back it up. As unsettling as that was in a president-elect, the implications are far greater when something clearly untrue is spread by a commander in chief and when the weight and resources of his administration are brought to bear in amplifying information.
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and my favorite sentence
"Beliefs, however, are not the same as facts."
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WAPO - "Trumps disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jan 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)1. The link:
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)2. whoops (second time I've done that today) - thanks - edited my OP.
Too fuming....not thinking clearly....maximally pissed off at you know who
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)3. I get it. It's hard to stay calm during a shitstorm.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)4. news is flying at about 100X the rate that it used to!
mopinko
(70,208 posts)5. lets hope so. it's our only hope.