Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump’s team has ‘alternative facts.’ Which pretty much says it all.
“Fake news” is so yesterday. “Alternative facts” is where it’s at now.
This, of course, isn’t the first time the Trump team and its supporters have responded to journalists calling out their falsehoods by claiming the truth isn’t so black and white or that it’s not a big deal.
.. pro-Trump CNN pundit Scottie Nell Hughes offered this on Diane Rehm’s show:
One thing that’s been interesting this campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts — they’re not really facts. Everybody has a way — it’s 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. There’s no such thing, unfortunately anymore, of facts.
.. what Conway is arguing today — that there are so many shades of gray that clear facts just don’t really exist.
This, of course, is a hugely cynical worldview. But it’s about the only way the Trump team can fight back