Trouble is, it can be hard to know truths from untruths, and there's evidence untruths travel faster.
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Lisa Dickey: Yeah, I mean, he may not tell untruths to you, but I think it'd be very difficult for you to suggest that he's not regularly telling untruths.
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Hate speech and untruths appear alongside good intentions and truths.
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Here are all the lies, half lies and untruths. 5.
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But Trump has rarely chosen nuanced truths over simple untruths.
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He repeated untruths, and he repeated himself over and over.
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His preferred forms of communication are insults, obscenities and untruths.
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And unfortunately, there has been way too much ... untruths being told.
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At times, there is a benign explanation for children telling untruths.
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Chief executives rise to the top because they sell untruths persuasively.
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"It appears there are some material untruths and lies," Acevedo said.
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The impulses underlying the dissemination of such untruths are not benign.
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"It is painful to read so many untruths," the statement said.
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In a three-day period, the President said or tweeted 22020 untruths.
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In fact, they have like, willfully spoken untruths not based on intelligence.
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You, who have spread so very many untruths, or our own eyes?
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A shrugging reaction to Trump's untruths last week might have been predictable.
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Glenn Kessler's database of presidential untruths will become a reference, a talisman.
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It claims this process stops the spread of untruths by 80 percent.
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The official dismissed Benalla's comments as "a bundle of untruths and approximations".
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They're doing so by telling blatant untruths about President Trump's tax plan.
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The accusations, untruths and wayward exclamation points piled up by the paragraph.
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She blasts the media for telling untruths about her partner ... blasts them hard.
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But McCaskill on Thursday more openly criticized Trump for misstatements, untruths and lies.
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" Corker soon responded on Twitter: "Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #AlertTheDaycareStaff.
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It's a category distinct from ordinary articles that have incidental untruths in them.
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Harmful myths and untruths about vaccinations have been scientifically debunked in rigorous ways.
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This was the first of many untruths the CEO told throughout the decade.
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The power of fake news, she concluded, incentivized politicians to strategically spread untruths.
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People tend to defend themselves when they fear something, and people do tell untruths.
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But a bipolar II diagnosis does not easily explain organized untruths, maintained over time.
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But there is a difference between aggressive and preposterous, and between truths and untruths.
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From both his personal Twitter account and the White House account, he told untruths.
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The court's decision required people claiming libel to prove "actual malice," not simply untruths.
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But I go there with people if they're not listening or if they're saying untruths.
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Better behaviour by the giants, from Facebook to Fox, could limit the spread of untruths.
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" He later tweeted in response to Trump's attacks: "Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president.
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Olanoff had brought up the "pedo guy" attack as an example of Musk telling untruths.
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Olanoff had brought up the "pedo guy" attack as an example of Musk telling untruths.
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Olanoff had brought up the "pedo guy" attack as an example of Musk telling untruths.
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The untruths put a wedge between the couple that devastates Colette yet also liberates her.
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Facebook has said it will not remove ads by politicians, even when they contain untruths.
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And you can accuse whatever because you&aposre just just sitting there just telling untruths.
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There is the real possibility he believes the untruths because, well, he needs to. 3.
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The proper response to a White House that's pumping out untruths isn't to shut it out.
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Here's how we covered Trump's untruths in the latest edition of the "Reliable Sources" media newsletter.
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Amnesty International, a human-rights group, branded the speech "a mix of untruths and victim-blaming".
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If someone -- anyone -- publicly defames me on Twitter, why isn't Twitter accountable for publishing damaging untruths?
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It is about dealing one in unpleasant truths and having the guts to confront the untruths.
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He brought conspiracy theories to the mainstream, declared massive untruths, and refused to divulge personal records.
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Both women faced angry rebuttals from the judicial nominees and were broadly accused of telling untruths.
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Enterprising businessmen quickly figure out ways to make money off the Americans who gleefully embrace untruths.
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This document shows us how far down a road paved with untruths hearsay can take us.
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It is more powerful than any political party — and it's full of untruths, bigotry and nonsense.
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To bring back reason and to rebuild a common culture, we need to dismantle those untruths.
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"Liberty Counsel is not promoting untruths," Holly Meade, Director of Communications for Liberty Counsel told MUNCHIES.
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That includes recognizing a wide range of sexual orientations as well as dispelling prejudices and untruths.
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They might not change their personal beliefs, but fear of ridicule can stop them from repeating untruths.
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"We grew up in our family not using the l-word, but they're provable untruths," he said.
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In November, the European Union launched "Disinformation Review," a weekly compendium of pro-Kremlin distortions and untruths.
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"I'm not a person that likes to promote hate and untruths," Doherty said after the tense hearing.
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Some untruths are trivial, such as a bizarre contention regarding the crowd size of last year's inaugural.
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Mr. President, let us be clear, the impulses underlying the dissemination of such untruths are not benign.
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They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.
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There's been plenty of President Trump's brand of political rhetoric, replete with hyperbole, untruths and personal attacks.
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Teenagers tell the most lies, with six in 85033 telling as many as five untruths a day.
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It is not my purpose here to inventory all of the official untruths of the past year.
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Some untruths are trivial -- such as the bizarre contention regarding the crowd size at last year's inaugural.
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Some untruths are trivial – such as the bizarre contention regarding the crowd size at last year's inaugural.
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On Friday the Vietnamese ruling Communist Party expelled an academic it accused of posting untruths on Facebook.
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Sometimes, the evidence is overwhelming that a person is aware of the truth and still stating untruths.
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" This meant, among other things, producing photographs that could combat "the untruths we'd seen in mainline publications.
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Among other untruths, Spicer also noted that the D.C. Metro experienced a higher volume of passengers on Jan.
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The Economist: The internet was supposed to be a check on untruths; now it seems like a catalyst.
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As an instrument of his master's vanity and attachment to untruths, Mr Spicer became a figure of fun.
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A distorted view of history Trump's misstatements, embellishments and untruths about accepted historical fact have run the gamut.
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"I don't think Hannah told any untruths on her tape," Yorkey was quick to say during the panel.
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Many stem directly from her 1956 autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues," which historians say is riddled with untruths.
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They are self-centered and cynical, manipulating resentment with half-truths and untruths, accommodating the loony extremist right.
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Mr. Trump's reputation for distortions and untruths have also made it difficult to separate bluster from agenda-setting.
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His untruths about his tax plan, immigrants, voter fraud, crime and many other subjects serve a similar purpose.
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It's a psychic tax on the population, who must parse an avalanche of untruths to understand current events.
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"What I have witnessed in recent days is former colleagues speaking out against untruths when needed," he said.
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Trafficking in untruths and conspiracies, he calls the press that he secretly venerates dishonest for pointing this out.
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"Were there other untruths that you said along the way for which you were not prosecuted?" he asked.
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But then there's the troubling phenomenon of fake news—as in, straight-up untruths—now having real-world consequences.
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In the email, Yin resigns effective Friday, citing the lack of transparency and 'several untruths' presented by 500 Leadership.
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The internet has already given partisans and provocateurs a cheap and effective way to spread written rumours and untruths.
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It hinges on a fundamental contradiction, parallel untruths the President has repeatedly used to deflect from negative developments: 1.
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Time has a fascinating interview with Trump about his use of lies, falsehoods, untruths, and exaggerations, especially on Twitter.
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Jones can apologize for the blatant untruths InfoWars has published, but that doesn't mean readers stop believing in them.
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This is the second time I've summarized a presidential debate by listing Donald Trump's untruths, and there's a reason.
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For Western readers, it exposes the untruths that have characterized Muslim women as deferential beings in need of rescue.
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The main constraint on political spin appears to be avoiding untruths likely to earn the ire of fact-checkers.
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Trump sent his press secretary, Sean Spicer, out to deliver an extraordinarily explosive statement about the episode packed with untruths.
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Though Obama didn't mention his name, Trump is a prolific Twitter user, often posting demonstrable untruths, propaganda, and inflammatory content.
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"I am afraid they have also been caught telling outright untruths in some of their denials of stories," Wintour said.
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"Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths," her former costar says in this week's cover story.
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In other words, those little white lies we tell all the time might build up into bigger, more serious untruths.
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That is, his untruths about the House's health care bill aren't merely intended to distinguish his supporters from his opponents.
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The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications.
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The Washington Post's count of Trump's distortions and untruths, which now exceeds 13,000, could well surpass 20,000 before election day.
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"Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths," her former costar says in PEOPLE's cover story last week.
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She states and defends stacks of untruths — from the motivations of Donald Trump accusers to the state of health care negotiations.
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Courts recognize that "lying" applies to a broad spectrum of untruths: white lies, partial truths, misinterpretation, deception and just general dishonesty.
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So it's really not fair in the way they will attack people with untruths, without checking to make sure it's untrue.
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They have been less willing I think to republish untruths than say those internet platforms that do not filter the information.
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What's tragic is that so many Americans, including political leadership, think it's acceptable to distort the past and freely spout untruths.
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Only 30% consider her honest; by comparison, 43% say the same of Mr Trump, though his speeches are packed with untruths.
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After Trump's first series of tweets, Corker hit back on Twitter and then CNN: Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president.
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"He tells untruths when he doesn't need to and I don't know why yet, I'm developing the character," Mr. Show said.
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"Maassen has destroyed the trust in the intelligence service with untruths," Robert Habeck, co-leader of the Greens, wrote on Twitter.
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His untruths, which lately average almost two dozen a day, have long since stopped being news, becoming instead irritating background noise.
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Conveniently, Facebook ignores decades of research demonstrating that those who have consumed untruths are unlikely to buy into the corrected version.
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That the president of the United States has repeatedly spread untruths about the coronavirus and the government's response aggravates the situation.
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The Speaker marched off to give her press conference where she proclaimed that the president's speech was all lies and untruths.
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Falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths But it is also possible that given his administration's history of repeated falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths, on issues from the size of the inauguration crowds to claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, the President may not come across as a particularly credible witness in the court of public opinion.
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If they are successful, they will have assaulted the rule of law by persuading the public to accept innuendo and known untruths.
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"We had some nice times with Sacha kicking around ideas, but he went off and told untruths about what happened," he said.
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" When Trump first started tweeting about him early Tuesday morning, Corker responded in a tweet: "Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president.
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" Kessler's new story, co-written with Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, says "the tsunami of untruths just keeps looming larger and larger.
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And in attempting to distance themselves from Russia, it is possible that others close to Trump will be caught out by untruths.
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His untruths and half-baked apologies for sexism reflect his inability to treat people with respect and dignity, including his family members.
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The most telling thing about The Post's count of Trump's untruths is how un-shocking it becomes as the number grows larger.
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At the newsstands, the variety of papers on offer is overwhelming, but most of these publications are tabloids peddling gossip and untruths.
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A few clicks later and the candidate has the cash to buy more ads, amplifying more untruths and raising even more money.
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Such panic has been promoted by activists who spread untruths about the dangers of vaccines, especially the vaccine that protects against measles.
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In any case, it's yet another example of the power that the internet has when it comes to spreading untruths far and wide.
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You can find out the most terrifying untruths presented in such an appealing package that it seems like it has to be fact.
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" Musk apologized in July for calling Unsworth a pedophile, saying that his "words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths.
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Be that as it may, this reality does not automatically exclude the possibility that the FBI acted improperly in eliciting untruths from him.
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The only silver lining here is that Puerto Ricans, faced with the Trump administration's untruths, are determined to do something about it politically.
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It is the range and regularity of the untruths we see that should be the cause for profound alarm and spur to action.
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Mr. Ryan dismissed polling that suggests the tax bill is unpopular and attributed skepticism about the legislation to pundits spreading untruths on television.
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For all of his boastings and untruths, one thing Trump is right about is how incredibly popular he is among the Republican base.
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"It appears there are some material untruths and lies" in Goines' initial search warrant affidavit for the home, HPD Chief Art Acevedo said.
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Others might seek to flush away Trump's untruths with a candidate who shown consistency in his principles for decades, such as Vermont Sen.
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Brown fired back at Sessions following those remarks, calling the attorney general's appearance a "political stunt" that was full of "lies" and untruths.
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But yesterday, Trump spokesmen offered a remarkably large number of flat out untruths as they attempted to defend the Republican health care plan.
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While the Times should challenge all untruths uttered by the Trump administration, given the experience so far, there will be many such instances.
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Franchisees who had invested hundred of thousands of dollars met a bitter end in 2006, as the local arm went bust after spruiking untruths.
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Shortly after, Mark Zuckerberg made some comments about Holocaust deniers and how its hard to police dangerous untruths from communities that wholeheartedly believe them.
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ET, with a Democratic rebuttal to follow and the networks vowing to provide extensive fact-checking, given the president's history of untruths and distortions.
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His particular brand of comedy equips him to defend truth against the lies, falsehoods, and untruths peddled by Trump and the right-wing media.
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She, on the other hand, is free to reveal what happened to whomever she chooses, though not to damage the doctor's reputation with untruths.
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It is not my purpose here to inventory all of the unofficial untruths of the past year, but a brief survey is in order.
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" In a statement, North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said such claims were "groundless" and accused the US of attempting to "cook up untruths.
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I thought she was surprisingly candid in the first interview, so it seemed more like she believed her own story, rather than telling untruths.
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The database he compiles with his colleagues Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly, listing every one of Trump's untruths, will become a reference, a talisman.
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Others tell untruths for the president, sometimes at his request, sometimes out of loyalty, and get caught in gummy webs of their own devising.
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We also wanted to ask whether you think our list — which we billed as definitive — missed any of the president's untruths since taking office.
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The Wall Street Journal is no Fox News, and Baker, who's publicly acknowledged Trump's untruths and celebrated some hard-hitting stories, is no Ailes.
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There was, it was claimed, a serious risk to liberal democracy from American subversion within, in alliance with the Russians without, peddling seductive untruths.
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His story on Ramirez does not hold up well under scrutiny; his testimony to the Senate last week was filled with misdirection and untruths.
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The authority to speak for or about black culture is not guaranteed by skin color or lineage, and it can be undermined by untruths.
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Her protracted attempt to fact-check the Daysy, she said, demonstrates how untruths proliferate online far faster than scientific publishing is accustomed to correcting them.
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David Cameron has accused fellow Tories like Michael Gove, the justice secretary, and Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, of "resorting to total untruths".
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According to one study, app-based communication encourages self-presentational lies along with "butler lies," or polite untruths about your availability to keep people interested.
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President Trump and his team have famously used terms like "alternative facts" and "truth isn't truth" to normalize the president's apparent compulsion to say untruths.
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They were drawn to Donald's brashness and bluster and bullying, his harsh words, even the amoral ease with which untruths slid out of his mouth.
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At a news conference in London this week, American reporters grilled Mr. Johnson about a catalog of half-truths, untruths and insults by the Brexiteers.
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Detractors say that RT is part of a disinformation campaign that peddles exaggerations and untruths to undermine confidence in Western institutions and destabilize democracy itself.
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But I think ... I wanted to sort of mention, one of the things that really is troubling to people is how often he tells untruths.
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He has been open and unconcerned about his most provocative character traits -- his penchant for aggression and for serial untruths -- from the start of his campaign.
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In a speech delivered at the Vatican for World Communications Day, he said that the "crafty serpent" was the original incarnation of the spread of untruths.
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In the wake of this maybe-gaffe, Fleiss persisted, dribbling out teasers and eliminated contenders and riddles and untruths (philosophically speaking, less lies than pure bullshit).
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The three-minute clip has Josh Homme being subjected to a lie-detector test, revealing the album's details one-by-one through a series of untruths.
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What happens when Trump says something similarly wrong when the stakes are higher, or when the government has to work harder to make his untruths true?
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" But Deputy President William Ruto told CNN Sunday there was no confusion over what the voter turnout figures were, and called Odinga a "peddler of untruths.
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And if the administration is willing to throw around flat-out untruths when it comes to such a small thing, what else is it lying about?
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Flake also mentioned a few of Trump's own falsehoods: Some untruths are trivial, such as a bizarre contention regarding the crowd size of last year's inaugural.
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Some of the Democrats are doing it the way it should be, but some are trying to gain political favor by saying a lot of untruths.
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"Overall, he added, Trump's "reputation for telling untruths and exaggerating truths is very harmful when he has to advise a frightened public during a major outbreak.
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"Overall, his reputation for telling untruths and exaggerating truths is very harmful when he has to advise a frightened public during a major outbreak," Gostin added.
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He was lucid to the end, and so accepting of death that he prepared his own obituary, to avoid some ignorant person publishing untruths about him.
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More than that, it shows that even important US security agencies are willing to openly contradict those who defend the president when they tell obvious untruths.
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Asselborn said the 2016 referendum in which Britons voted narrowly to leave the EU was "tainted with untruths" which had been since revealed to be false.
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To not put in place a mechanism where abuse and untruths smother science and factual reporting is to put at stake any progression in innovation and entrepreneurialism.
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" (Dogcatchers, it should be noted, are almost always appointed.) After that, Corker sent out a tweet of his own: "Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. #AlertTheDaycareStaff.
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Pic justifies his behaviour by repeating familiar sentiments: that anyone might become wealthy, with willing, and that mainstream political views are untruths (fake news, in other words).
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He said he learned of the allegations in 2014 when he discovered a fan had been contacted by Glass to post "horrific and humiliating untruths" about him.
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Gatti's own justification for doxing Ferrante—that by publishing a supposed autobiography that contained untruths she was demanding to be outed—was also criticized for being insufficient.
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Once we accept these lies, we open ourselves up to believing a whole raft of other untruths, or at least suspect that there are other, vaster conspiracies.
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The issue took on national importance last fall after Trump's campaign ran a Facebook ad telling untruths about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
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It's perhaps more important with President Trump because there are more untruths to set the record straight," Rather, a former CBS anchor, said on CNN's "Reliable Sources.
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Then Republicans had a third choice: embrace Trump's campaign of denials and distortion designed to bury the case in a confusing layer of conspiracy theories and untruths.
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It was, in many ways, a typical Trump press appearance, offering little real clarity on the president's interactions with Zelensky, with a slew of untruths mixed in.
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I cannot watch idly as the country is forced to face a "lesser of two evils" election, where corruption, illegality, and untruths are the order of the day.
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That's why there is a cacophony of calls for "peace" and "unity" and "can we all just get along," even if it means untruths -- or partial truths -- prevail.
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They do bring people together, as well as divide people, and I think that the lies, the untruths, are often a very important part of how they work.
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It also found 13 percent of people tell 58 percent of the totalled untruths—that's ten percent of the population telling more than half of all the lies.
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Although federal prosecutors declined to pursue this infraction, the members of Congress to whom Pai repeatedly told untruths have indicated they are not likely to forgive and forget.
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Holocaust denial relies on such a robust set of illogical untruths that it is only possible to be a denier on purpose, contrary to what Zuckerberg says, intentionally.
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By the Fact-Checker's estimates, Trump -- if he keeps up his current pace -- will blow past 2,000 misstatements and/or untruths in his first year in office. Stop.
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"The idea of someone so flagrantly telling untruths to ascend to the highest legal position in the U.S. remains shocking, in addition to its being illegal," she wrote.
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Unless you're a long-standing reader of ghost stories, it's easy to fall victim to various untruths that line readerly expectations like bogeyman on some dimly moonlit path.
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His work is keenly aware of the mixed-up, broken-down, rearranged ways we each view the world, and the truths and untruths we either question or swallow.
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But some untruths are not at all trivial, such as the seminal untruth of the President's political career, the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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Reporters, too, have been pulling their hair out trying to understand how the least truthful person in the history of Politifact can march along unscathed by his untruths.
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I found it particularly sad to watch Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, stoop to offering the same kind of obvious untruths as President Trump regularly does.
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Unsworth's filing on Monday called Musk's statements, made in depositions and court documents, "replete with untruths and misrepresentations" and includes a bevy of embarrassing revelations obtained in discovery.
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But it does mean there is overwhelming proof from Trump's own administration and from non-political experts that these untruths will no longer serve as Trump's Achilles shield.
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But many untruths are not at all trivial -- such as the seminal untruth of the president's political career - the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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But many untruths are not at all trivial – such as the seminal untruth of the president's political career - the oft-repeated conspiracy about the birthplace of President Obama.
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Visual, comedic, earthy, full of biases, untruths and other artistic licences — while the players behind the scenes treat it lightly, caring more about warts on their body parts.
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This disregard puts the media in a tricky spot, because calling out the president of the United States and his staff for untruths will inevitably upset his supporters.
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Little wonder, as Mr Zuckerman-Sivan noted this week, that hardly any conservative is upset by Mr Kavanaugh's untruths about his teenage drinking and understanding of the word "boof".
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As commenters on social media digested these untruths coming direct from the White House, Spicer quickly turned into a meme for people to share blatant lies of their own.
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The obsessive codification of the truth by anybody means that white lies — like a kid lying to his mother — are treated as if they were equal to flagrant untruths.
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The musical Hamilton, on the other hand, is full of anachronisms and untruths—Angelica did not introduce Eliza to Alexander, nor did she have a secret romance with Alexander.
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Emmanuel Macron, French president, has railed against the "defamatory untruths" and "deceitful propaganda" of Kremlin-backed media organisations such as RT and Sputnik, which both have French-language websites.
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Instead, in typical Trump fashion, he is doubling down on his untruths and outright lies, blaming Democrats for the current crimes against humanity for which only he is responsible.
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Untruths and half-truths circulate liberally on social media platforms, and populists on both sides of the Atlantic have been aggressively trying to discredit and intimidate the mainstream media.
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Pinter's evisceration of George W. Bush and Tony Blair for mixing truths and untruths during the Iraq war almost feels like gee-whiz acknowledgment of a more innocent time.
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It is an end-of-life cri de coeur by a man whose being has been enveloped, and destroyed, by demeaning public untruths that he lacked power to rectify.
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In slamming Sessions' appearance as a "political stunt" that was full of "lies" and untruths, Brown needled Sessions personally and his relationship with the President, which is famously fraught.
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" He later deleted the tweets, explaining that they were issued "in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub.
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"Your first feeling, when you ended up there, was that you were in some kind of factory that turned lying, telling untruths, into an industrial assembly line," Mindiyarov said.
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"I have never seen such brazen untruths told before Congress as I have heard from the mouths of these big tech executives, Google really being the worst," he told Recode.
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In a stunning similarity between Watergate and Putingate, both the Nixon and Trump administrations included internal voices who exposed untruths and warned Americans against grave dangers that escalate every day.
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First, for so long, it was obvious that his wall would be an impossibility because it was so ill-fated, badly thought out, and based on outright lies and untruths.
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Flake laid some "official untruths" at Trump's door and said the most vexing was his labeling as a "hoax" the investigation of alleged ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.
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According to The Washington Post's invaluable Fact Checker, Trump said more than 6,000 things in 2018 that were either misleading or false -- a rate of almost 16 untruths a day.
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"You're forcing a lot of bad facts and untruths into your questions, and I have to stop and correct you each time," Grayson said to Reid Saturday during the interview.
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First, health care: Here's a giveway about how bad the new Senate health care bill is: Bill Cassidy, one of its authors, keeps trying to sell it by telling untruths.
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"So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words," said Chris Flack, Caroline's mother.
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While anti-vaxers were once considered fringe, there are now dozens of anti-vaccine groups on Facebook trying to convince parents of various untruths, such as that vaccines cause autism.
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So many kooky theories and untruths on the shooting flooded the internet that YouTube changed its search algorithm to stop these conspiracy theories from bubbling to the top of searches.
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While Gypsy is concealing the truth of her mother's lies, Scott tells his own untruths — he claims he's a surgeon, rather than an attendant at an old folks' home, for starters.
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Musk would apologize later in July for calling the diver a "pedo" and a "child rapist," claims he said "were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths" about Musk.
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The big question going into the vice presidential debate was how Mike Pence, who is essentially a standard-issue Republican politician, would defend Donald Trump's various insults, untruths, and bizarre moments.
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"I don't think Hannah told any untruths on her tape but I think she told her story and she reclaimed her narrative which had really been taken from her," he said.
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It's already paid off handsomely: His support has held and much of his base is wedded to his version of reality (or has decided they don't care if he tells untruths).
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The interview went roughly as anyone might expect in the sense that there's no point in expecting anything but non-sequiturs, Facebook-brained untruths, and self-aggrandizement from Kanye West anymore.
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Some signature untruths, like Mr. Trump's insistence that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning, have often been allowed to go unchallenged, including at a recent NBC candidate forum. Mrs.
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" The text continues: "It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
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"The continued use in 2019 of untruths, exaggerations, and misrepresentations by world leaders, in response to what they deem &aposfake news,&apos has made worse an already dangerous situation," Latiff said.
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That fact is a trivial matter -- all kinds of presidents have not drawn record crowds -- until that fact becomes the focus of a numeric volley of untruths from the White House podium.
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Still, Rourke raised the specter of Chris' continued untruths — that even in deciding to plead guilty to his crimes he might keep some of the details of what he'd done a secret.
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Specifically, I've had a lot of sleepless nights and deep frustration with the lack of transparency and several untruths that I believe everyone who chooses to represent 500 should be aware of.
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The question is whether these are simple untruths or something closer to what Trump is doing: promising an outlandish feast on the understanding that it's more likely to be a regular meal.
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Flake laid some "official untruths" at Trump's door on Wednesday and said the most vexing was his labeling as a "hoax" the investigation of alleged ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.
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"Overall, his reputation for telling untruths and exaggerating truths is very harmful when he has to advise a frightened public during a major outbreak," a public health expert at Georgetown told Insider.
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After an election that played out in a blizzard of untruths and questions whether news is real or fake, it can feel like a hall of mirrors inside a hall of mirrors.
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The networks are also planning various forms of fact-checking during Trump's address, sources confirm to PEOPLE — an unusual move for a presidential address and a reflection of Trump's particular facility with untruths.
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In other words, Conway and Spicer snatched potential defeat from the jaws of victory by stretching the truth and presenting untruths that will forever mar their ability to discuss those specific stories credibly.
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In the latest notorious case of the administration peddling untruths, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders was caught on Fox News implying falsely that up to 4,000 terrorists have poured over the southern border.
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Clinton's dossier of falsehoods has increased with the F.B.I. report contradicting so many of her statements about her private email server, Mr. Trump and his campaign have generated so many untruths that Factcheck.
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His critics fear that his norm-breaking campaign portends a political future in which candidates pay no penalty for unabashedly telling untruths, disregarding the public's right to know, and lobbing racially charged accusations.
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The difference is that under Trump, the untruths dished out by his official spokespeople have piled up in great, confusing heaps, spanning everything from inauguration crowd sizes to Trump's fondness for violent rhetoric.
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"The Clinton campaign, when they were not spreading obvious untruths, pointed to unnamed sources or to speculative and vague statements from the intelligence community to suggest a nefarious allegiance with Russia," he writes.
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Travel often serves as its own sort of intervention, one not sponsored by other states or humanitarian groups but by ordinary people whose very presence can rebut the untruths that fester in isolation.
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Still, even some in Mr. Trump's orbit acknowledge that this campaign season has brought out a torrent of untruths that, they worry, distracts from a record he should be proud to outline factually.
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In our own country, from the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to action.
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Which brings us to an unsettling conclusion: Trump's discussions with foreign leaders — a major part of how the US uses its power and conducts foreign policy — are steeped in conspiracy theories and other untruths.
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In fact, what we have gotten is irresponsible sugar-coating, political blaming, grandstanding and a botched Oval Office address that was remarkable for its lack of solutions, its xenophobic undertones and its outright untruths.
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Her predecessor in the role, Sean Spicer, wrote a memoir that not only doubled down on some of the untruths he told from the White House podium but contained other embarrassing errors and omissions.
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This follows the same logic as theory #2 except for the fact that Trump is self aware enough to know that he is deceiving people by pushing out untruths -- and he just doesn't care.
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If Trump's untruths attacking the free press are proven to be an attempt to mislead citizens or obstruct investigations of Russia's continuing attack against America, the legal consequences for Trump could be grave indeed.
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Over the weekend, he maintained that the police had reason to investigate the home, but that there were "material untruths or lies" in an affidavit for a search warrant that led to the raid.
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You can't punish people for the actions of other people, and because we had no connection to the [Unite the Right rally], there's no reason to bow down to public pressure based on untruths.
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As for the census citizenship question, Cummings said the oversight panel needed to "figure out why it's there, because to be very frank with you, we have been told some untruths" by the administration.
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The Giuliani hysterics have substantially diminished the professional reputation of one of the country&aposs more formidable ex-prosecutors, have offered known untruths and have become the legal equivalent of throwing gasoline on a fire.
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Even when they do manage to deal with issues, positive policy proposals are presented in a facile manner, frequently with untruths and a complete unwillingness to face up to the likelihood of success versus failure.
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Trump, who according to The Washington Post Fact Check has so far lied more than 3,000 times as President, is possibly proving that peddling untruths on an industrial scale is how to avoid a blowback.
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Within hours of Jackson publishing his findings on his blog — which TechCrunch has seen — Talkspace sent Jackson a cease and desist letter, accusing the researcher of defaming Talkspace "by broadcasting untruths" in his blog post.
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"So many untruths were out there, but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words," Chris Flack, Caroline's mother, told local newspaper Eastern Daily Press.
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And, what's even more amazing than a President who is averaging -- repeat: averaging -- more than eight untruths a day is this: Trump's penchant for saying false things is exponentially increasing as his presidency wears on.
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SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of the modern internet is in a downscale strip mall near the beach.
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As an adult orphan, I witnessed the first woman run for the most powerful office in the world with dignity and class as she fought the forces of bigotry, ageism, intolerance, rancor, untruths, and wanton sexism.
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Clickbait, in particular, has had an undoubtedly negative effect on readers—the very people that journalists promise to set out to inform—by dishing up endlessly repackaged press releases that retain their PR distortions and untruths.
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"This indictment is little more than a tawdry patchwork of innuendo and untruths and is itself a damning indictment of the flaws in Turkey's justice system," John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe Director said in a statement.
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The Washington Post has reported that in his first 298 days in the White House, Trump has said or tweeted out no less than 1,628 untruths or misleading statements, an average of 5.5 claims a day.
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"We have a number of untruths — a truck can't be electric, an electric car can't go off road, it can't get dirty, it can't tow, and truck buyers don't want something that's environmentally friendly," he said.
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Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway entered the history books and became late-night comedy fodder when she tried to rebrand falsehoods, untruths and outright lies as simply "alternative facts" during a nationally televised TV interview Sunday.
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Amid the facile circulation of untruths, what will happen to our society's commitment to the authority of facts, of the often laborious accumulation of empirical evidence, and of the scrupulously attained findings of humanists and scientists?
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He tells so many untruths that it's time to leave behind the textual parsing over which are unwitting and which are deliberate — as well as the condescending notion that most of Trump's supporters enjoy his lies.
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For all the rehab center's failings, it was there that Bolu was learning to unravel some of the untruths about mental health that society had drummed into him, chief among them that addiction was a personal failing.
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These untruths aren't confined to Trump's casual remarks, where you might forgive a certain amount of flubs; he's misrepresented terrorism statistics in an address to Congress and repeated misleading campaign lines while speaking at the United Nations.
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Today, instead of any sort of reasonable discussion of climate impacts and potential solutions, the hearing mainly entailed a litany of untruths and long-debunked conspiracy theories, along with some incredibly awkward name-calling from the witnesses.
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The reality is that regardless of the debate format employed, professional fact-checkers for the campaigns and major media outlets will be checking every utterance for accuracy; some will begin reporting untruths before the broadcast even ends.
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Such untruths fit into a broader, if largely tacit, racism that has made Mr Trump popular not only with the Ku Klux Klan, but also with the considerably larger number of whites who harbour some racial resentment.
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Rick Hasen, a UC Irvine law professor who specializes in election law, noted on Thursday that the majority of justices in last term's Minnesota case about political apparel took an accommodating view toward banning election-related untruths.
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And while people might be (too) used to Trump's lying, there's a difference -- in how it might be perceived -- between his triumphantly volunteering blatant untruths and offering them defensively, after being cornered by a skilled prosecutor. 4.
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In the latest in a string of highly personal attacks, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has just launched a website called, Lying, Crooked Hillary, that alleges years' worth of untruths from Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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So here are three sets of questions about the government's response; the news media's coverage; and the disrupted media world at large... Trump's viral untruths -- Why are President Trump's actions still several steps behind the eight-ball?
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When trusted sources of "truth" are undermined by intentionally placed untruths, and when "news" is purveyed by every Facebook poster, tweeter and tiny website, it becomes very hard in the short term to find truthful news accounts.
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"You can accuse whatever because you're just sitting there just telling untruths because you don't get it because you have a personal agenda and maybe you're auditioning for the prospect of being an impeachment manager," he added.
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Abortion remains far too complex of an issue to reduce to a single political talking point, but Trump is wont to do it — and these untruths sincerely jeopardize the reproductive rights of millions of women across the country.
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There were hoaxes and untruths that went viral, but none were the sort likely to turn into real news a la the wiretap or Trump's (now apparently dropped) demand that there were millions of cases of voter fraud.
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As my colleagues have pointed out, Trump has a history of telling untruths about Muslims, from the fiction that some in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks to the idea that American mosques are hotbeds of radicalism.
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We reached out to Facebook ... a spokesperson tells us Glouner's complaint is full of inaccuracies and untruths, and his separation from the company had nothing to do with age, disability or any of the other reasons he claims.
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The markets have continued their dismal tumble, and the White House took the extraordinary step of correcting (or, in Politico parlance, "walking back") three separate untruths the president managed to deliver, despite seemingly sticking to his prepared remarks.
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"The readiness of the political right in particular to lie and peddle obvious untruths, to place their party politics and party unity over and above the national interest, has been going on for a long time," he said.
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But the doctored stories, sandwiched by reposts of content from legitimate news organizations and partisan websites, raise some bewildering questions, even as public awareness has grown of online disinformation and the Russian trolls fueling some of the untruths.
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Without an opportunity to hear from the White House and to question its representatives, the avalanche of untruths emanating from this president and his surrogates would pass with less attention and scrutiny, to the detriment of our democracy.
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Impressive alumni of the J.J. Abrams/Benedict Cumberbatch School of Widespread Untruths, everyone from Kit Harington to Game of Thrones directors to Siri herself has been lying about the fate of a certain character for the past 10 months.
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It goes without saying that "the media"—commentators and other journalists who don't work for an explicitly hard-right outlet like FOX News or Breitbart—have already condemned Trump, mocked him, subjected his untruths to the usual fact-checking.
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In the past 24 hours, she's learned how hard that can be, after an uncomfortable interview with Cosmopolitan and two easily fact-checked untruths left her sounding more like her combative father than her usual polished, on-message self.
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Trump claims several untruths: that nothing has been found thus far in this investigation; that they have found absolutely no collusion; that the whole thing is a partisan witch hunt; and that the sacrosanct attorney-client privilege is dead.
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However, if all Trumpian untruths, major and minor, are named as "lies" and these appear on an almost daily basis, then it will be difficult to distinguish between those that are ridiculously trivial and those that have monumental impact.
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New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said in 2018 interview that while covering the Trump campaign they dealt with "a lot more untruths than any other campaign," so she and her fellow reporters developed a system similar to making soup.
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Mr Trump's wife, Melania, has sued a newspaper for reporting lurid untruths about her on the basis that this cost her the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" of making millions as "one of the most photographed women in the world".
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"My words were spoken in anger after Mr Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub." he wrote on Twitter, after his offer of help of a mini submarine was rebuffed in graphic style.
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"Whether this campaign targets or attacks our president, our First Vice President Frans Timmermans or any other members of staff of our institution, we will respond and defend our work with equal force to the untruths and deceiving rhetoric," he said.
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"I've lived for such a long time in the House of Gaslight, clinging to my experiences as they unfolded in my 20s and railing against the untruths that painted me as an unstable stalker and Servicer in Chief," she writes.
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It was true last week in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and its true now, as the deadly Irma and the still-strengthening Jose close in on the US. Here are the latest untruths blown in by the gale-force winds.
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" He added, "Russia Today and Sputnik have been organs of influence during this campaign, which on many occasions produced untruths about me and my campaign, and so I determined that they had no place, I confirm it, in my headquarters.
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Washington (CNN)A Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee is defending White House communications director Hope Hicks, saying her questioning by Democrats on the panel was a "setup" to get her to acknowledge telling untruths for President Donald Trump.
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Last month, the Post's fact-checking team documented what it called a "tsunami of untruths" uttered by Trump over a two-day period that brought his total number of false or misleading claims past 5,000 on his 601st day in office.
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Under the policy, Facebook exempts ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking — a loophole, Warren says, that allows Zuckerberg to continue taking "gobs of money" from Trump's campaign despite Trump's ads telling untruths about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
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When the very nature of truth is in jeopardy, when you have Sean Spicer standing before the nation and making blatantly false claims about size of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd, why not mock these blatant untruths by asserting something ridiculous and delightful?
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But in January, U.S. magazine People said five of Meghan's close friends had broken their silence to speak about the "lies and untruths" and "global bullying" the duchess had suffered and their fears about how this would affect her and her baby.
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" The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, who won a Pulitzer prize largely for his reporting that uncovered the president's untruths about donating to charities, tweeted, "I'm just writing something up about how this great@forbes story contradicts what@EricTrump told me last yr.
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Even more unfortunate is the fact that the president of the country Google is headquartered in has employed former Breitbart executive chair Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, and an increasing number of Americans are reading the website's toxic untruths as fact.
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After chaining himself to an unpopular president, a sort of Western "Comical Ali" (Saddam Hussein's minister of information who refused to accept his boss's defeat) defending the untruths that emanated from above him, it is difficult to build a post-briefing-room career.
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Subsequent events, including Flynn's telling of untruths to Vice President Mike Pence about the content of his conversations with Kislyak, that led to his resignation, at the very least reflect poorly on the President's judgment in offering him such a senior administration post.
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The most shocking aspect of the President's latest flurry of untruths in recent days relating to events before the 2016 election is that they were not at all shocking to a nation numbed by his barrage of easily disprovable claims and statements.
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The delight with which Archie Bunker was sentimentally enshrined in our culture made it clear the bigotry he parroted still thrived, in a twilight realm where untruths not only live on past exposure, but develop an uncanny power stronger than mere facts.
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See how Putin has led a new revolution in propaganda by unleashing troll armies, empowering RT—the Russian government-funded TV network-- and shamelessly promoting egregious untruths (like British responsibility for clearly-Russian sponsored poisoning attacks on the Skripals in Britain last month).
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Given the President's propensity to peddle untruths, the burden of truth for any military strike would be high -- even higher than it would have been given that inaccurate intelligence led the US into its last major war in the Middle East, in Iraq.
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He said the 2016 referendum in which Britons voted to leave the EU was "tainted with untruths" which had been revealed to be false and there was now a strong trend among the population, as well as in business and finance circles, to prevent Brexit.
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" Musk now says, "My words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths ... Nonetheless, his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologize to Mr. Unsworth and to the companies I represent as a leader.
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Whether it's another case of the Trump administration sowing fear with its aggressive tactics, or of untruths and half-truths poisoning public opinion, is a key question for the administration and its critics — but either way, it's possible the damage has already been done.
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That a distinguished federal appellate judge felt the need to debase himself with obvious untruths just moments after his nomination to the highest court in the land portends an attempt by President Trump to dominate the judiciary, bringing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
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His speeches and debates were laced with convenient untruths and slanders: his race-baiting lies about a "young buck" chiseling welfare and a wealthy Chicago "welfare queen" tooling around in her Cadillac; pollution-causing trees; his slandering of Michael Dukakis as an "invalid" in 1988.
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I think a lot of that "who works with whom" equation starts not with taste, but with what your anxieties are, and where you're broken, and what you're hiding, and what are the fundamental untruths about yourself that you believe that become personal folklore.
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"My words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness & according to specifications from the dive team leader," Musk tweeted on Wednesday morning.
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The call at the center of impeachment Trump's dual-pronged tactic to fight impeachment with untruths and power grabs is best illustrated by the key piece of evidence in the case -- the rough White House transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Roosevelt, who called himself a "juggler" who was "perfectly willing to mislead and tell untruths it if helps win the war," liked to keep his options open and just about everyone else — military leaders, diplomats, Congress, even Vice President Harry Truman — in the dark.
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"Clinton got exactly what she wanted by lying about Tulsi - she harmed her political and personal rival's reputation and ongoing presidential campaign, and started a damaging whisper campaign based on baseless, but vicious, untruths," said the lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York.
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In a second letter, published late Saturday, Vigano said top Vatican officials have told untruths about a meeting he set up in 2015 between the Pope and Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who cited her Christian faith in refusing to sign same-sex marriage certificates.
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Chief Art Acevedo of the Houston Police Department said there were "material untruths or lies" in an affidavit for a search warrant that led to the raid, in which officers breached the door of a house in southeast Houston and a gun battle broke out.
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But his warning might have seemed rather rich to his opponents, coming from a commander in chief who has made a habit of belittling his opponents, argued for days about the size of his inaugural crowd and peddled untruths about millions of illegal voters in the election.
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Last month, a group of Meghan's close friends opening up to PEOPLE for the first time about the woman they know and love amid months of negative press in the U.K. "Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths," her former costar said.
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As this well-written article suggests, my words were spoken in anger after Mr. Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness & according to specifications from the dive team leader.
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Under current policy, Facebook exempts ads by politicians from third-party fact-checking -- a loophole, Warren says, that allows Zuckerberg to continue taking "gobs of money" from President Donald Trump's campaign despite Trump's ads telling untruths about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
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Over the course of his short address, Trump reportedly dropped eleven untruths, from misrepresenting the new trade deal with Mexico to claiming that a wall will stop the flow of heroin across the border, even though 90 percent of drugs are smuggled through legal ports of entry.
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Critics of the president saw in the message a totalitarian desire to stifle criticism and deny obvious facts, but supporters saw in the tweet trolling of The Post&aposs failure to see humor in the president&aposs message and parody its reporting of the president&aposs untruths.
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But if tabulating untruths seems Sisyphean, at least we can catalogue them, the same way lepidopterologists catalogue butterflies—each wrong statement may be beautiful or perplexing in its own way, but if we pin them down under glass we can sort them out into a few discrete species.
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I won't get into the details, but it's an absolute disgrace that in the greatest country in the world we have to watch a bleached orange man-child blurt out blatant untruths on a global stage and still entertain the possibility of him gaining access to the nuclear codes.
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In part, for the same reason that so many people fall other untruths: the gorgeous simplicity of the accusation; the way it plays into all the prejudices that exist around an industry often associated with indulgence and the culture of disposability; the way it pushes all the right buttons.
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But in this time of President Trump's almost daily "fake news" accusations against The New York Times, and of his counselor Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts," and of untruths seeping like a plague from the highest office in the land, there's increasing talk of "real" or "fact-based" journalism.
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Yet anyone who thought that being implicated in a crime in one of the most sensational political moments of recent history would soon temper Trump's behavior, stop his White House peddling untruths or reshape the political terrain that sustains his presidency is being disappointed -- at least for now.
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Letter To the Editor: "Words matter," Dan Barry noted earlier this year, in explaining why Donald Trump's lies need to be called lies, and not glossed over with euphemisms like "falsehoods" or "fake news" ("In Swirl of 'Untruths' and 'Falsehoods,' Calling a Lie a Lie," news analysis, Jan. 26).
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" On Wednesday, shortly before Guglielmi's tweet about the actor being considered a suspect, Smollett's brothers Jocqui and Jake shared a statement that read: "Remember to THINK, check your own prejudice, and truly inform yourself before jumping to conclusions and spreading untruths, saying things you'll regret, and making cruel harmful jokes #justiceforjussie.
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"The reason this is difficult is that I've lived for such a long time in the House of Gaslight, clinging to my experiences as they unfolded in my 20s and railing against the untruths that painted me as an unstable stalker and Servicer in Chief," she wrote in Vanity Fair.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans in the Senate were not being truthful about what their tax plan does and how it would affect Americans, referring to a charge by Republican Senator Bob Corker that Trump routinely told untruths.
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Over the next few days or weeks, he will almost certainly face the reality that much of the world — angry at his tweets, tirades, untruths and accusations — could be disinclined to believe the arguments advanced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others that Iran bears responsibility for the attack.
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No wonder he has embarked on a frenzy of public statements and hysterical tweets about the border, DACA, the Dreamers, blaming Democrats for not solving DACA, declaring DACA dead, blaming Obama and Hillary, claiming our country is being stolen and going off on unhinged tirades full of misguided declarations, untruths and outright lies.
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This is worse than had seemed possible: Trump's inexhaustible obsession with the crowd size at the inauguration; his constant untruths; his perverse inability to accept that he won the election, to the point that he wants to investigate the popular vote that he lost; his startling lust for torture, walls, banishment and carnage.
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After all, the President has spent most of his first 100 days in office torching conventional political practice, trading in untruths and exaggerations, and pouring oil on political controversies on Twitter -- including accusations that his campaign had links to the Kremlin at a time when Moscow was being accused of interfering in the US election.
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His echoing of presidential untruths, his addressing the firing of the F.B.I. director James B. Comey from the nighttime shadows of a White House hedgerow, his referring to Nazi death camps as "Holocaust Centers," made the afternoon White House briefing a can't-look-away television spectacle that topped the soap opera "General Hospital" for viewership.
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"I've heard from many of you who feel betrayed and hurt by the untruths being spread about our motives and actions, the integrity of our process and the artists who've rightfully earned their GRAMMY Nominations, and the reminders of the hard truths we do have to face as a community," Mason said in the statement.
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"Blessed", a book about the prosperity gospel by Ms Bowler, describes the fine line between telling boastful untruths and "positive confession", by which a bankrupt might thank God for an imaginary gusher of money, or a deathly ill congregant might insist that she is already cured, in the belief that naming a desire will bring it about.
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" It is impossible to extricate Hitler's understanding of the idea of the "big lie" — a propaganda technique which argues that telling people "colossal untruths," in Hitler's words, is more effective than using small lies — from his argument that Jews are not only behind the "big lie" about Ludendorff, but that they are themselves a "big lie.
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On August 1, 2018, the Washington Post reported President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE had uttered more than 4,000 untruths that were couched as misleading claims or false statements.
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WSJ editorial: Most Americans may conclude Trump 'fake president' While such tactics helped Trump in the circus of a presidential campaign unfolding in a new era of post-truth politics, it's less clear that trading in untruths -- by setting up the press and the intelligence agencies as a foil for his confrontation brand of politics -- is a recipe for a successful presidency.
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The effect of this blizzard of untruths and half-baked assertions is two-fold: It allows Trump to appeal to different audiences (depending on what they choose to believe, Trump has words that appeal to both ultra-hawks and ultra-doves), and it also creates a post-truth world where Trump's assertion of the moment is the only thing that counts.
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Flynn, during his brief time as national security adviser to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, told FBI agents untruths that are contradicted by hard evidence.
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If his rising approval rating and dominance of the agenda in the days running into the midterms with a campaign based on fear and untruths help Republicans hang on to the House and perhaps increase their Senate majority, a comment by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the CNN CITIZEN conference in New York on Monday will look prescient.
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And the narrative that the number of people that still believe Barack Obama wasn't born in this country, or the number of people that think John McCain wasn't a hero as we've heard from some voter who have said because he left Vietnam and used his father's connections, when it was exactly the opposite – that comes from a news organization that has put out those untruths.
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"The State Department has peddled three untruths to the American people: the false story that Iran deal talks were sparked by the election of moderates in Iran who actually never existed, the deletion of video footage showing the Department's admission of that falsehood, and the now discredited claim that the deletion of the footage was merely 'a glitch' rather than an intentional manipulation," Cotton said.
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First and foremost, let's talk about the utter irony of an event that's supposed to celebrate the freedom of the press — and by extension, freedom of speech and expression — having a bunch of supposedly "unbiased" people come to the defense of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a woman who calls them liars on a regular basis while trying to fill their pages with harmful untruths about millions of Americans every day.
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"Neither shall themselves, or cause or permit third parties, to slander, defame, disparage, or communicate untruths, malicious statements, false and slanderous statements, information, rumors, or salacious materials of any kind against the other person, or against the other person's family, friends, employees, employers, or other close relatives and associates, whether in written form, verbally, on paper, on the Internet, on any social media application, or in any manner," the documents read.
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Now, two former BLM directors penned an op-ed in Politico that contains untruths, innuendo and material misrepresentations, including: Boiled down, this kerfuffle is about people who seek to retain their special access -- that is, their ability to travel to Washington, meet with top BLM officials far from the lands they manage and demand their allegiance to the special interests that try to run Washington, D.C. They can still meet with us.
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For Adam, according to Wood, the iconography of these statues can be understood by Christians who do not accept the Swedes' pagan beliefs; in fact, Christians can understand the Swedes' art even better than the Swedes do themselves, since it is possible for an outsider like Adam to see that these northern gods are, as Wood summarizes, "mere imitations of the Mediterranean gods" (such as Mars) who had already been definitively written off as untruths by Christianity.
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In fact, it was only the beginning of a painful, almost daily ritual where Spicer would have to stand in front of the world's media and either defend the indefensible lies that would spew out of Trump's mouth that day — or roll off his twitter-happy fingers, more likely — or Spicer would invent untruths of his own in order to make his boss look good or to cover up for the myriad of inaccuracies in which the Donald Trump traffics on a daily basis.
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" Trump has said that news outlets like CNN were "doing everything they can to instill fear in people" and Democrats are "trying to gain political favor by saying a lot of untruths," while Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick MulvaneyMick MulvaneyDozens of Democrats raise concerns over 'public charge' rule and coronavirus response Feehery: Mulvaney fit for Northern Ireland post Meadows self-quarantines after possible exposure to coronavirus patient MORE said journalists are boosting talk of the coronavirus because "they think this will bring down the president.
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"It's really sad that the pressure on the president and the misinformation and the untruths he's been given would cause him to suggest that you vote for two guys that have failed you, because I will not fail you if I get to D.C." Blankenship is referring to Trump's support for Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreGOP Senate candidate 'pissed off' at Trump over health care for veterans Durbin says he has second thoughts about asking for Franken's resignation Alabama GOP senate candidate says 'homosexual activities' have ruined TV, country's moral core MORE, who won the Republican nomination in December's special Senate election in Alabama.
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And, I would argue, 2016 will be remembered as the year when we fully grasped just how scary that can be — how easy it was for a presidential candidate to tweet out untruths and half-truths faster than anyone could correct them, how cheap it was for Russia to intervene on Trump's behalf with hacks of Democratic operatives' computers and how unnerving it was to hear Yahoo's chief information security officer, Bob Lord, say that his company still had "not been able to identify" how one billion Yahoo accounts and their sensitive user information were hacked in 2013.
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These include Daniel Ellsberg who revealed the papers that showed the government lied about the Vietnam War; Mark Felt the "deep throat" who facilitated the Washington Post's seminal early Watergate reporting; Pentagon official Ernest Fitzgerald who disclosed $2 billion of cost overrun scams; and Joe WilsonAddison (Joe) Graves WilsonBipartisan lawmakers condemn Iran, dispute State Department on number of protesters killed Trump's exceptionalism: No president has so disrespected our exceptional institutions Overnight Defense: Erdoğan gets earful from GOP senators | Amazon to challenge Pentagon cloud contract decision in court | Lawmakers under pressure to pass benefits fix for military families MORE who revealed some of the untruths that led to America's disastrous Iraq war.
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Titled "New No's," it reads: No to racists No to fascists No to taxes funding racists and fascists No mercy for rapists No pity for bigots No forgiveness for nativists No to all those No hope without rage No rage without teeth No separate peace No easy feat No to bounds by genders No to clickbait as culture No to news as truths No to art as untruths No anti-Semitic anything No Islamophobic anything No progress without others No meaning without meaning No means no No means no No means no No means no At its best, art is an essential source of comfort, wisdom and hope — and this past season was no exception.
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