Trump + Spicer lied to the media on first full day in office
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Beyoncé
TheEternalCherry — 9 years ago(January 22, 2017 01:26 PM)
On Saturday, President Donald Trumps first full day in office, he gave a speech at CIA headquarters in which he lied about the size of the crowd at his inauguration and falsely claimed that he had never feuded with the U.S. intelligence community. Hours later, his press secretary emerged from the West Wing, lied about the size of the inaugural crowd and took no questions.
The most important news here is not the crowd size, or whether Trump feuded with Americas spies (he did), or even that the president and his press secretary lied. Politicians lie. Whats remarkable is that the president and his administration chose to lie, repeatedly, on their first full day on the job, about a relatively trivial and easily checkable matter.
Kellyanne Conway, the omnipresent senior aide to the president, said Sunday that the White House press secretary wasnt lying when he lied about crowd numbers at the inauguration, he was merely presenting alternative facts.
This is actually frightening that Trump and his lackeys are willing to lie to the public about such minuscule, insignificant things so early into the presidency. What else are they going to lie to us about?
Ice cold. I roll my eyes at you.