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Solly Mack

(96,640 posts)
4. Never his fault. He's not lying. He's just repeating.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:12 PM
Feb 2017

Never mind he's been called on the exact same thing before. He keeps telling that lie.

Solly Mack

(96,640 posts)
8. I've been wondering what was going while the presser was taking place.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:19 PM
Feb 2017

It was all out of the blue. He didn't bring his cheering squad. He never does a presser like that...alone, for that length of time. Struck me as odd.

Maybe Flynn flew home to Russia while Trump was acting the fool. (half-joking)

malaise

(294,130 posts)
10. Repeating that shit which has been destroyed since November
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:19 PM
Feb 2017

means he doesn't give a shit that he's repeating a lie - bangs head.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
13. He doesn't know he is lying though.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:25 PM
Feb 2017

He really believes his rw sources...which is why he keeps saying the same things and calling the rest of the news liars. And in some ways, his beliefs about the media are based on the fact that he knows he got a free ride during the primaries and the GE. So he has that basic distrust of them to start with.

He has lived in a cocoon of his own making for so long, I doubt he could find his way out of he had to.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
16. He doesn't trust the source that points out he is wrong. John Oliver
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 05:57 PM
Feb 2017

did a great in-depth piece about this recently. Trump has created his own little truth loop, where he only trusts his sources, and then his voters trust him, which his sources report on, which he then cites as proof that people agree with him. They create their own perpetual loop of misinformation.

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