re: #170 Joe Bacon 🌹

Sorta difficult when a New York Times stenographer has a crush on Trump!

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No, I don’t think that’s it. I think she’s being pedantic about the word ‘lie’.

As done by @nytimes here: The statement is a lie, regardless of Trump’s state of mind. pic.twitter.com/8iU5UWVq56

— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) May 27, 2018

I have written stories about his lies, falsehoods, whoppers, half-truths, salesman-like stretches. The reality is that what he does can be hard to label because, as anyone who has worked for him will tell you in candor, he often thinks whatever he says is what’s real. https://t.co/0gJbgzgbjK

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 27, 2018

Key to understanding, not just of Haberman’s caginess around the word lie, but MUCH more importantly of Trump himself:

The reality is that what he does can be hard to label because, as anyone who has worked for him will tell you in candor, he often thinks whatever he says is what’s real.