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Did Trump Surrogates State That There Are No Such Things As Facts?

12/10/2016

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In a nutshell, yes.

Scottie Nell Hughes, paid CNN commentator, vocal supporter of Donald Trump during the presidential election, and editor of RightAlerts.com, asserted in an interview on “The Diane Rehm Show” on public radio in December 2016 that “there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, [as] facts.” The topic of discussion was Mr. Trump’s assertion that millions of people had voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Hughes said:
 
SNH: There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore, of facts. Mr. Trump’s tweet, amongst a certain crowd, a large — a large part of the population, are truth. When he says that millions of people illegally voted, he has some — in his — amongst him and his supporters, and people believe they have facts to back that up. Those that do not like Mr. Trump, they say that those are lies, and there’s no facts to back it up.
 

Politico reporter Glenn Thrush, also a guest on the radio show, responded:

GT: There are no objective facts? I mean, that is — that is an absolutely outrageous assertion. Of course there are facts. There is no widespread proof that three million people voted illegally. It’s been checked over and over again. We had a Pew study that took place over 15 years that showed people had more likelihood of being struck by lightning than voting illegally in an election.

Hughes continued to assert that facts are not really facts:

SNH: One thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts, they’re not really facts. Everybody has a way, it’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true.

The entire episode of “The Diane Rehm Show” can be found here.
http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio/#/shows/2016-11-30/how-journalists-are-rethinking-their-role-under-a-trump-presidency/114095/@00:00
 
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, at a most-mortem election conference at Harvard University, complained that the media did not understand Trump's remarks properly:

CL: You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally. The American people didn’t. They understood it. They understood that sometimes, when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar, you’re going to say things, and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up.
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Lewandowski’s words can be found in the following Washington Post article by Aaron Blake.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/02/corey-lewandowskis-very-odd-explanation-of-donald-trumps-facts/?utm_term=.f29e264898f3
 

At the same Harvard event CNN's Jake Tapper asked Kellyanne Conway, currently a Trump senior adviser, whether the president-elect disseminating misinformation was “presidential," her response reflected a belief that anything Trump says or does is acceptable:

KAC: He’s the president-elect, so that’s presidential behavior.

Conway's words can be found in the following Washington Post article by Margaret Sullivan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-post-truth-world-of-the-trump-administration-is-scarier-than-you-think/2016/12/02/ebda952a-b897-11e6-b994-f45a208f7a73_story.html?utm_term=.be1d8b12a57a

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