Beyond a lie: The White House is creating misinformation as propaganda

[Judi Lynn]

WEDNESDAY, JUN 7, 2017 11:39 AM CDT

The White House isn't misinformed. It's trying to deliberately spread misinformation
ERIC BOEHLERT, MEDIA MATTERS


Lying about public policy has become standard practice for the Trump White House, as well as leaders of the Republican Party. There seems to be no baseless claim this administration isn’t willing to make.

That dark trend was on display last week in the White House Rose Garden when President Donald Trump announced he was beginning the process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accord. Trump’s supposed reasoning for abandoning the deal was built in part around widely disputed claims that the accord was a jobs killer for the United States.

But there was one claim that seemed to occupy a separate category: It was a pure fabrication about a supposed “slush fund” that had been created around the Paris agreement — a “slush fund” the United States was flushing billions of dollars into for other countries to spend. (Naturally, far-right sites and right-wing Twitter loved the “slush fund” claim.)

More:
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/07/trump-white-house-moves-from-lies-to-authoritarian-style-propaganda_partner/

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