It would be fair to say that Trump is not highly educated, well read, or particularly well informed. This applies to most of his Cabinet, which is noticeably unqualified and poorly educated.
Many people, mostly those outside of Trump’s supporter community, are both appalled and baffled by his lies (see stats on this here). How can a President — even one like Trump — Tweet or otherwise give statements that are either clearly untrue, or implausible and totally without evidence.
Trump has two types of lies. The first are those that are demonstrably untrue. For example, his references to the ‘failing New York Times’ when in fact the New York Times is seeing a surge in readership:..
The second are unproven and very unlikely to be true, for example describing CNN as ‘fake news’ or accusing Obama of tapping his phones during the election campaign. There is no evidence for this, and it appears to be based on Breitbart stories. Furthermore, as Obama’s team have pointed out, the President has no authority to authorise or request surveillance of anyone, so it is implausible. If you read the Breitbart story, it is just a feedback loop — they reference what Trump said, which references what someone else said, and then Trump references what Brietbart said. But in amongst the looping of quotes there aren’t actually any facts. As the New York Times exclaimed:…
MORE: Why Trump Lies – Medium
No comments:
Post a Comment