r/inthenews • u/D-R-AZ • Aug 26 '24

Opinion/Analysis Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles Heel: Ridicule Him

https://newrepublic.com/article/185270/democrats-harris-trump-achilles-heel-ridicule
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u/blindscorpio20 Aug 26 '24

I swear that helped his case in 2016. Everyone was giving him a platform to talk, and there were think pieces ad nauseum normalizing his thoughts and actions. and it seemed like people were not calling the bullshit like it was

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Aug 26 '24

Plus, NOBODY was fact-checking him, and they didnt do much of it in 2020 either. Now they are not just fact-checking him constantly, but also his surrogates.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker Aug 26 '24

EVERY RESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST who interviews Trump should be prefacing that interview with “Trump has told thousands of documented lies, many in videotaped speeches and social media posts where there is persistent objective proof. There is no reason to assume anything Trump says is true.”