{"id":33272,"date":"2016-12-05T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33272"},"modified":"2016-12-05T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T20:58:32","slug":"trumps-campaign-of-lies-is-portrayed-as-refreshing-by-his-vp-mike-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33272","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Campaign Of Lies Is Portrayed As ‘Refreshing’ By His VP Mike Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago the Oxford Dictionary selected “post-truth”<\/em> as its Word of the Year<\/a><\/strong> for 2016. They define it as the preference for emotion and personal belief over objective facts. That’s been the operative model for Donald Trump’s campaign from the very start. Now his top staff are cementing the strategy into his developing presidency.<\/p>\n

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Trump recently tweeted that he would have won the popular vote but for the “millions of people who voted illegally.”<\/em> That nonsense won him his 61st Pants-On-Fire lie<\/a><\/strong> from PolitiFact. He never bothered to provide any evidence to support the claim. And the evidence provided by his spokespersons<\/a><\/strong> didn’t even address the subject.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that Trump and his minions have no respect for the truth. One of his most prominent surrogates, Scottie Nell Hughes of CNN, came right out and admitted it<\/a><\/strong>. In a recent radio interview she said that “There\u2019s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”<\/em> We are truly over the rainbow here, folks.<\/p>\n

The latest tunnel-blind defense of Trump’s brazen dishonesty goes even further to malign the existence of facts. His Chief of Staff nominee, Reince Priebus, was asked by John Dickerson of CBS’s Face the Nation about Trump’s tweet. Priebus responded saying:<\/p>\n

“Here\u2019s the thing, no one really knows. You don\u2019t know. […] I think the president-elect is someone who has pushed the envelope and caused people to think in this country. He’s not taking conventional thought on every single issue.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Citing no evidence, Priebus defends Trump's claim of millions of illegal voters https:\/\/t.co\/8XvBdhONIu<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/08sYPMMohS<\/a><\/p>\n

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n