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ghostsinthemachine

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Thu Dec 1, 2016, 09:32 PM Dec 2016

Trumps Lies Arent Lies Because Theres No Such Thing As Facts Anymore, His Surrogate Says


Fact check: There are, actually, such things as facts.

 12/01/2016 05:40 pm ET

President-elect Donald Trump likes to put forward lies and outlandish conspiracy theories as though they were statements of fact.

One of his most loyal surrogates offered a puzzling defense of this on Thursday, arguing that even Trump’s most pernicious statements aren’t really lies, because facts themselves no longer exist.

“One thing that’s been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts,” Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said on “The Diane Rehm Show” on NPR. “It’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”

Hughes, a political commentator and former talk radio producer, was responding to criticism of Trump’s recent claim that millions of people voted illegally in November’s presidential election. Trump provided no evidence to support this assertion, and there’s no sign that any such evidence actually exists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-surrogate-claims-no-facts_us_58408f8ee4b0c68e047fd952
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Trumps Lies Arent Lies Because Theres No Such Thing As Facts Anymore, His Surrogate Says (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Dec 2016 OP
Don't you know? We are in the post truth era. dhol82 Dec 2016 #1
Damn fools still buying Trump's bullshit C_U_L8R Dec 2016 #2
people argue whether he wants to take us back to the 1950s or the 1850s? ha! try the 1550s! unblock Dec 2016 #3

C_U_L8R

(44,897 posts)
2. Damn fools still buying Trump's bullshit
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 09:36 PM
Dec 2016

He just said 'drain the swamp' to wild cheers...
these clowns just fucking drank the swamp.
All I can say is they'll get everything they deserve.

unblock

(51,974 posts)
3. people argue whether he wants to take us back to the 1950s or the 1850s? ha! try the 1550s!
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 09:55 PM
Dec 2016

this is pre-enlightenment thinking.

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