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CNN media analyst says publications are finally calling Trump a liar
As the first presidential candidate debate approaches on Monday, parts of the media that have been reluctant to call Donald Trump a liar are finally dropping their polite euphemisms and calling the Republican presidential nominee’s lies what they are.
Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources said on Sunday that newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico are finally foregoing words like “misstatement,” “truth-stretching” and “exaggeration” and crossing a line that is not normally crossed in legacy media, uttering the “L-word.”
“The New York Times story — ‘A Week of Whoppers‘ — came out first on Saturday,” wrote Stelter on Sunday. “Politico, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times all followed within hours.”
“We don’t see this normally during presidential elections,” he said in an interview with Poppy Harlow filmed at Hofstra University, “and the editors I’ve spoken with at these papers say this is necessary to call it out, to tell it like it is.”
“Yes, Hillary Clinton makes misstatements,” he continued. “Politico, for example, counted eight within the last week. However, Donald Trump made more than 70 during that same period of time.”
“There are not two equal sides for fact-checking in this election,” Stelter said. “Donald Trump lies more. Hillary Clinton also makes misstatements, but you can’t weight them equally.”
In its editorial on Sunday, Politico said that “the conclusion is inescapable: Trump’s mishandling of facts and propensity for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton’s as to make the comparison almost ludicrous.”
The New York Times pointed out that many of Trump’s lies share a common theme. “Virtually all” of them “directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction.”
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"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
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lol..check the front page of WaPo anytime *Trump will kill us all" is the typical headline"Politico, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times all followed within hours.”
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