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Vox: The worst things you’ll read about Trump come from his own aides

January 27, 2017 by Michael Boyle

Either way, we’re left with a president whose draft executive orders are being quickly leaked to the press and whose own West Wing staffers are openly deriding him. And that’s all happened within his first week. We have at least 204 more weeks to go.

Source: The worst things you’ll read about Trump come from his own aides – Vox

Tags: Trump, US Politics, Vox

Ezra Klein: Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.

January 21, 2017 by Michael Boyle

[Spicer] said: “This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, both in person and around the globe.”

This, along with much else Spicer said, was plainly untrue. But there’s a strategy at work here. The Trump administration is creating a baseline expectation among its loyalists that they can’t trust anything said by the media. The spat over crowd size is a low-stakes, semi-comic dispute, but the groundwork is being laid for much more consequential debates over what is, and isn’t, true.

Source: Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts. – Vox

The Trump Administration is trying to spin the sparse turnout using classic “Big Lie” techniques. Ezra takes a deeper look, complete with links to reliable data sources and further analysis.

Tags: Media, Trump, US Politics, Vox

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