Carter Page FISA warrants underscore the difficulty of disproving presidential falsehoods

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In a string of four Sunday tweets, President Trump made several demonstrably false assertions about what’s actually in the documents. He continued to hammer on this theme Monday morning.

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0:00.0	The Power of
0:00.5	Two O2's Big Idea is sponsored by US Bank,
0:03.6	the power of possible.
0:05.2	Learn more at US Bank.com slash newsroom.
0:08.6	Good morning.
0:11.1	I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Monday July 23rd.
0:19.0	In today's news, President Trump threatens Iran.
0:23.6	Maria Bhutna received financial support for her front group
0:26.6	from a Russian billionaire.
0:28.6	And the President wants to make his trade war
0:30.6	a central part of the midtermsterms against the advice of his aides.
0:34.1	But first, the big idea.
0:42.1	The Carter-page FISA warrants underscore the difficulty of disproving presidential falsehoods.
0:50.0	The truth gets lost in the tweets.
0:53.0	If you repeat a falsehood enough times, many people will believe it.
0:57.0	Especially if you have 53 million Twitter followers, the bully pulpit of the presidency,
1:02.0	and media outlets that often uncritically repeat your false
1:05.0	claims.
1:06.5	It's now been 503 days since President Trump falsely claimed that he had just found out Barack Obama personally
1:14.8	ordered his wires tapped in Trump Tower before the 2016 election.
1:19.7	Trump tweeted at the time, quote, this is McCarthyism.
1:23.1	This is Nixon Watergate.
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