Trumps Lies Arent Lies Because Theres No Such Thing As Facts Anymore, His Surrogate Says [View all]
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 Trumps most pernicious statements arent really lies, because facts themselves no longer exist.
One thing thats been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts. Theyre not really facts, Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR. Its 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. Theres no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.
Hughes, a political commentator and former talk radio producer, was responding to criticism of Trumps recent claim that millions of people voted illegally in Novembers presidential election. Trump provided no evidence to support this assertion, and theres no sign that any such evidence actually exists.
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