{"id":605,"date":"2016-12-06T09:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-12-06T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T13:59:03","slug":"lies-are-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Lies are Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “surrogate” for Donald Trump on talkshows — a kind of spokesman — named Scottie Nell Hughes made an astoundingly honest statement on the The Diane Rehm<\/em> Show the other day.\u00a0 It explains, for example, why her man can utter total fabrications, such as his allegation that millions of undocumented migrants cast votes for Hillary Clinton on November 8, and get them to stick.\u00a0 (Senior Republicans have echoed the lie.)\u00a0 Ms. Hughes said:<\/p>\n

“One thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts; they\u2019re not really facts. Everybody has a way, it\u2019s 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. …\u00a0 There\u2019s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.”<\/p>\n

Facts simply don’t matter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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