“Trump’s falsehoods were unstrategic -- needless, highly specific, easy to disprove,” the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold and Robert O’Harrow Jr. wrote of the deposition. Over the last week, Kellyanne Conway has tried to rebrand “alternative facts” as “alternative information” and “incomplete information. Like Trump’s public relations advisers in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s -- and like Spicer and Conway today -- Trump surrogates are forced to rationalize Trump’s meanderings. Over the last week, Conway has tried to rebrand “alternative facts” as “alternative information” and “incomplete information.” The latter two are unlikely to be the phrases that stick, however. He has been an editor and writer for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost and Talk magazine.

Source: Mint January 27, 2017 17:05 UTC