Daniel Dale

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Daniel Dale @ddale8

This kind of thing happens a lot, fact-checking Trump — he’ll distract from an important issue with a weird little lie; reporters will report on the weird little lie; his allies will be like “look how petty and biased these reporters are, spending time on something so little.” — PolitiTweet.org

Imagine running cover for a brutal terrorist mass murderer and rapist trying to prove that Baghdadi was not "whimpe… https://t.co/F0Gr8xmjjq

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Daniel Dale @ddale8

Rule of thumb: If a Trump story involves a man crying, the man likely did not cry. He has repeatedly invented male tears — to make opponents sound “weak,” to make supporters sound fawning. (He told Christian Broadcasting in 2016: “The last time I cried was when I was a baby.“) — PolitiTweet.org

NEW: Five senior Trump administration officials who watched in real time told The Daily Beast that they had no ide… https://t.co/CLyMVvIUm0

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Trump starts the cycle by lying about trivial stuff, but some of his supporters end up seeing the cycle primarily as evidence of media pettiness/bias, fueled by such accusations from his professional allies. So the lie is ends up a “win” with his base even if widely debunked. — PolitiTweet.org

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