You know it's not true, because the man wasn't crying.Trump last month to MN reporter: “I'll never forget, a man came up to me & said, ‘Sir, you saved our way of life.’ And it just - I still remember it like today, said, ‘You saved our way of life, by opening up the Iron Range.’ So, now they're doing fantastically, & I'm very proud” https://t.co/34Q0C8h2BX— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2019
I've seen people in the grip of great mental distress: hallucinations, multiple personality disorder, Alzheimer's. But I've never come across anyone so delusional yet taken so seriously. Comments like this shouldn't be reported as news; they should be treated as the rantings of a broken mind, of a man who can't tell truth from fiction. But to do so would be a political statement itself. At least, that's the argument.
But is it a political statement to say the President tells this story over and over again, always in service to Trump aggrandizing Trump? The only news in that story is that Trump lied again. Practically the only news when Trump opens his mouth is that he's lying again, and that it's so obvious there can be no question about it.
Why is the burden of proof shifted to the person laughing at the naked emperor? Are we really so convinced he wears the finest clothes? Or are we more concerned that we will have to defend the obvious? Isn't it easier to pretend there are always two equal opinions for every question, and that any challenge is a judgment? And isn't any judgment a political act?
Or is it sometimes simply stating the obvious?
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