The Towering Lies of President Trump

Machiavelli called this the “effectual truth”: Claims that are true, he wrote in “The Prince,” are so not because they correspond to objective reality but because they are politically “useful.”

And so it is with tRump https://nyti.ms/2GQInBX 
Opinion | The Towering Lies of President Trump

It’s simple. Everything that benefits Mr. Trump is true and everything that inconveniences him is false.

https://nyti.ms/2GQInBX
Trump rebuked the FDA for revoking its emergency authorization of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug tRump has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this!”

Technically by many he can mean "4"

ie: "many people are saying" =4
Trump rebuked the FDA for revoking its emergency authorization of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug tRump has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this!”Technically by many he can mean "4"ie: "many people are saying" =4
Trump rebuked the FDA for revoking its emergency authorization of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug tRump has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this!”Technically by many he can mean "4"ie: "many people are saying" =4
Trump rebuked the FDA for revoking its emergency authorization of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug tRump has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this!”Technically by many he can mean "4"ie: "many people are saying" =4
Trump rebuked the FDA for revoking its emergency authorization of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug tRump has repeatedly touted as a coronavirus treatment: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this!”Technically by many he can mean "4"ie: "many people are saying" =4
Plausibility
The mere existence of a believable opposing claim is sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. When skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth.
A claim no longer needs to be believable.
It simply needs to be made.
PlausibilityThe mere existence of a believable opposing claim is sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. When skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth.A claim no longer needs to be believable.It simply needs to be made.
PlausibilityThe mere existence of a believable opposing claim is sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. When skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth.A claim no longer needs to be believable.It simply needs to be made.
PlausibilityThe mere existence of a believable opposing claim is sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. When skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth.A claim no longer needs to be believable.It simply needs to be made.
PlausibilityThe mere existence of a believable opposing claim is sufficient to rebut a balanced assessment of the totality of evidence. When skepticism is a whole system of thought, assertion is the new truth.A claim no longer needs to be believable.It simply needs to be made.
Trump started down that road before he was inaugurated, preposterously claiming that millions of fraudulent ballots cheated him out of the 2016 popular vote. Machiavelli would recognize the terms in which Mr. Trump recently recast this claim: that he won in “a true sense.”
tRump continued within hours of taking the presidential oath, forcing his staff to insist against photographic evidence that the crowd at his inauguration had been the largest in history.

Make the lie big.
Repeat the lie until it becomes the truth.

The ministry of propaganda.
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