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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, February 17th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker. Yesterday, Donald Trump held a 77-minute press conference at the White House, in which he set out to repudiate one perceived enemy after another.

He called reporters dishonest people. He claimed to have had a very smooth

rollout of the travel ban, blaming the appeals judge's rejection of the order on a bad court.

He accused President Obama of leaving him with a country that is a mess. He said he had the biggest

electoral college victory since Ronald Reagan. And when asked whether

anyone in his campaign had contact with Russia during the presidential race, he said, no, nobody that I

know of. I mean, it's story after story after story is bad. I won. And the other thing, chaos, there's zero chaos. We are running,

this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince happens to be doing a good job, but half of his job is

putting out lies by the press. You know, I said, Cicilla Bach is joining me today to offer some

perspective on this moment in American history.ala Bach is joining me today to offer some perspective on this

moment in American history. Professor Bach is an ethicist who has been studying the phenomenon

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