Opinion: With towering lie, Trump highlights the narrow mission of fact checkers
Immigrants from Honduras seeking asylum wait on the Gateway International Bridge, which connects the United States and Mexico, in Matamoros, Mexico, on June 24, 2018. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 9 at 6:26 PM Early in the Trump administration, journalists puzzled over whether the president was an inveterate liar or merely a man who mangled facts with zip-line efficiency.
Following Trump’s reheated whopper, Post fact checker Glenn Kessler found himself in the recycling business: The other, more likely, possibility is that he is just plowing through, lying in the most brazen manner he knows. That would be another unfavorable scenario for the republic.
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