Fact Checkers Are Low-Balling Trump's Lie Rate
By Martin Longman
December 29, 2017 at 01:13PM
via Washington Monthly http://ift.tt/2zOs8w8
I appreciate Daniel Dale's care in this matter, but this strikes me as true, too:
«It bothers me when newspaper fact checkers contort themselves into pretzels in an effort to find any grain of truth in the president's pronouncements, so it's a relief to see an example where the benefit of the doubt is boldly abandoned. What Trump said here is a lie. It's a giant, "ridiculous" lie. And there's nothing wrong with saying so even though it's obviously a subjective judgment. There's really no need to try to explain how we know that Barack Obama "demonstrated a vastly greater understanding of the nuances of his [health] bill than Trump did about any version of [his own]." We just know.»