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I really think the issue was taken seriously. Donald Trump didn’t understand it at first, but when he realized what the reporter was saying, he simply shot him a dirty look and headed to the next questioner.
The person who put it, at a press conference this week, was the Huffington Post’s White House correspondent, SV Daté. It said, “Mr. President, do you regret all the times you’ve lied to the American people?”
What might Donald Trump have answered if we were toying with the idea that he had been sincere for once? That the purpose sanctifies the means? What is politics, dummy?
There is no doubt that Trump’s lie is systematic, or even pathological. It’s increasing too – if you look at the number of claims that have been verified. At the beginning of his stage as president, there were about 6-7 lies a day, today the figure is close to 25. And there are two months until the elections.
At the same time, it is obvious that it is about more than lies, in its traditional sense. When the president speaks in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton and repeatedly claims that Biden was “not born there,” he obviously knows that is not true and that the audience there knows it too, but that it suits his political rhetoric. to keep saying the.
“Donald Trump and his assault on the truth”
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Reporters Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly have the seemingly inconsolable task of carrying out the investigation at The Washington Post. When I met them last year, they emphasized the importance of not quitting. Their work may affect neither the president nor her electorate, but whether adherence to consequent neutrality cannot be a factor in context. When the president speaks, it is important, so is the job of examining his claims, whether he is waving incomprehensible graphics about covid-19, generating conspiracy theories about ‘Obamagate’ or, as in Thursday’s speech at the convention Republican, spitting clearly. misstatements about what Joe Biden said and did.
The book with examples about Trump’s lies is pedagogically structured around various themes and shows, among other things, how statements in which the president has been clearly refuted are constantly repeated in his speech: recently, for example, that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign – One of many indictments that earned four Pinocchio noses, the harshest rating on the newspaper’s scale.
One important explanation for the president still getting his way with his lies is his symbiotic relationship with, above all, Fox News and its various hosts. There he has a natural forum, where he can preach to the choir. When Trump visited The Sean Hannity Show in July, he was charged with no fewer than 62 false accusations. None of them encountered objections.
Brian Stelters “Hoax”.
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The relationship between Trump and Hannity is in the focus of Brian Stelter’s very readable “Hoax”, which came out back in the day. Stelter, who runs the Reliable Sources program on CNN and has one of the most widely read newsletters in the industry, describes in detail how strongly the president and the channel are interdependent. The daily phone calls, on and off the shows, serve as an affirmation and an incantation, but they are also an explanation in themselves of the growing illusions of both.
What Stelter portrays is ironically what is a red flag for all right-wing populists: the idea of a “state media” that only conveys the message of power. Both Trump and Fox like to present themselves fighting the “mainstream media” and the so-called “deep state,” but in reality they are America’s highest political power and its obedient propaganda ministry. The most controlled news television is really hard to imagine.
Stelter’s strength is that he has done such solid footwork: he has interviewed hundreds of Fox employees and paints a clear picture of a channel that step by step unveiled journalistic ambitions, to become a megaphone to the ear. and the mouth of the president.
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The title, “Hoax” or scam, is chosen with care.. It’s a word that has appeared on Trump’s Twitter feed nearly 200 times – about the Supreme Court process, the crown crisis, the postal service, and so much more, to the extent that the word has basically lost all meaning. , and both Trump and Sean Hannity spoke for a long time about a hoax in relation to the corona pandemic.
One of Fox’s employees is Howard Kurtz, a longtime monitor of the media industry, now on Fox’s “Media Buzz.” His image differs greatly from that of the Stelters: primarily because he claims that The Washington Post, The New York Times, and others, similar to Fox, became actors in a war of opinion.
His contribution, in the book “Media Madness”, is not irrelevant, but rests on a much weaker basis in fact than Stelters. A much better book, in this stream of Trump literature in the media, is “Front row at the Trump show” by ABC reporter Jonathan Karl, precisely because it is linked to the publishing trade: for, despite the extreme conditions, still able to do your job.
Karl would probably never ask the question if the president regrets his lies. But after reading your book, I’m pretty sure you thought so.
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