'Facts develop': The Trump team's new 'alternative facts'-esque ways to explain its falsehoods
Source: Washington Post
‘Facts develop’: The Trump team’s new ‘alternative facts’-esque ways to explain its falsehoods
By Aaron Blake
August 6 at 10:58 AM
As president, Donald Trump has uttered more than 4,000 falsehoods or misleading statements. And the spokespeople and advisers tasked with squaring Trump's version of reality with actual reality must often contort themselves accordingly. Early in the administration, this meant Kellyanne Conway talking about how the administration had “alternative facts.” Later, it was Sean Spicer explaining that he didn't “knowingly” lie to the American people.
On Sunday, they tried a couple of new tacks: asserting that “facts develop” and saying that the president “misspoke” — while saying something he has said dozens of times.
The first came on ABC News's “This Week.” In light of Trump's problematic new tweet about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, George Stephanopoulos challenged the president's personal attorney Jay Sekulow on two past, disproven assurances that Trump hadn't authored the initial, misleading statement about it. (That statement said the meeting was “primarily” about the adoption of Russian children.)
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Facts might have “developed” from Sekulow's perspective, but the actual events never changed. Either Trump didn't tell him the truth about his role in drafting that statement, or Sekulow and Sanders offered assurances that were basically made-up. That “bad information” came from somewhere — either Trump or thin air. There are only two options here, and neither is good.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/08/06/facts-develop-the-trump-teams-new-alternative-facts-esque-ways-to-explain-its-falsehoods/
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