• LucyLastic@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Do they have to, though? Couldn’t they just say “A spokesman for Trump made a factually incorrect statement which did not add any context.” and just leave it at that?

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      1 year ago

      Oh, what I would give for this to have been their response…

      However, there’s a part of me that says it might be better to publicize what they actually said for posterity? I guess in my fantasy world, after some time (years? decades? centuries?) we’ve magically fixed all our problems and people can look back at quotes like these and have yet another data point for how insane this political world became and what to avoid in the future. (I’m obviously ignoring problems like the fact that this article will disappear between now and then, and quotes like that cause real damage in today’s world, so it’s probably not worth it in reality.)