Not just Sharpie-gate: 7 other times officials tried to fabricate Trump's 'truth'

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

As you’ve heard, President Trump displayed a chart that appeared to be doctored with a Sharpie to retroactively demonstrate that he had been right when he falsely warned that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian.

This has set in motion a very D.C.-style mystery, though with a Trumpian twist: Who, multiple news organizations have asked, doctored the chart? It’s a good question.

But it’s also illuminating to look at this as part of a much larger pattern: Again and again, government officials have wheeled into action in an effort to make Trump’s lies, errors and obsessions into truths, in some cases issuing “official” information explicitly shaped or doctored to do so.

By my count, this has happened at least seven times:

[BlueMississippi]

1. Not surprising

When one hires stupid lackeys with no ability to think, this is what will happen.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Kremlin Don and his cohort of criminals create fake news

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Seven is a gross underestimate.

How about those reams of blank paper that were supposed to be "proof" that he divested from his businesses?

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I think the implication is - here are seven other examples of when this has been done.

Not - here are the other seven times this has been done.

The full column definitely doesn't give the impression those are the only seven other times. He'd have been writing until Sunday or Monday of week after next to collate all relative examples.

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. I read the full column, I understand the implication...

...and we both have completely valid points that are not in contradiction.