President Donald Trump has largely left what little regard he had for fact behind in the final days before the midterms, averaging about 35 to 45 dubious or incorrect claims per campaign rally, according to a Sunday Washington Post report.
He’s covered many fabricated allegations against Democrats, including that they want to eliminate both the U.S.’ borders and Medicare. He also continues to promise a “middle class tax cut,” though no such legislation exists.
“This freneticism at the end . . . him ratcheting up to a new level of histrionics and fear, the question is, ‘Is there a point of diminishing returns?’ ” former Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Washington Post. “Do these tactics at once offend some people but also appear so fundamentally contrived that even some who are inclined to vote for Republicans say, you lost me here?”
“His gamble is that this will work,” he continued. “Certainly the veracity doesn’t bother him, and the optics don’t bother him. The only thing that would bother him is losing.”
It’s time to cut way, way, WAY back on the “tRump lies again” story. To cover tRump’s lies means giving tRump extra coverage. And almost all the time, it means repeating the lie in order to explain why it’s a lie. That gives tRump even more coverage.
We need to do that a lot less, president or no.
I disagree. The press must keep calling out every lie. But they have to call it what it is, a LIE. Not “without evidence” and “without proof” but a lie, plain and simple. That’s the press’s job.
Dubious? Naw, mendacious is a far better description…
Fake WaPo news.
35 to 45 is way to low.
These type of efforts to by the Post, etc are an important part of shifting the narrative. You can’t with Trump play the “both sides” game, nor do he said, reporting, and then put on a D to try to correct the lies.
HairTwitler is engaged in Gobbles level dishonesty, designed to create a different reality. The media needs to stop playing the game that these are not evil lies, designed to mislead/scare people, they are instead a fascist technique. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot