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Donald Trump has ushered in a whole new era of fact-checking in journalism
Donald Trump has ushered in a whole new era of fact-checking in journalism
In the wake of the Orlando shooting in June, Donald Trump gave a series of inflammatory speeches containing one misleading statement after another.
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/13/11944674/fact-checking-donald-trump
This statement and this story shouldn't surprise anyone. Trump is speaking to a group of people who want to hear him speak in this manner. What Trump tells them cements, locks in what they think of the world.... he justifies all.....
and they love it... his lies help the people he speaks to make sense of the world they perceive....
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