Donald Trump and his first administration got away with lying so often because they often lied in ways about things that could easily be proven false. The term sanewashing came into play when describing the coverage of Trump because reporters would often interpret the statements of the White House in the most generous way imaginable.
Trump and his first administration cumulatively may have lied 100,000 times, and they still lost the 2020 election because when they tried to lie about the pandemic, people could see that the lie did not match up with their reality.
One might think that the second Trump administration would have learned from the first that there are limits to what they can get away with, but with roughly 6 weeks to go until the midterm election, the administration has chosen to lie about inflation.
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Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Fox News:
We've got a big reduction in inflation, but prices are higher because of the huge inflation that we inherited from Joe Biden. But inflation is way down, again, over the last three months, we're right at the Fed's target. A- and, and it's dropped sharply despite the what's going on in the Middle East. And, and so I think that, you know, I go to the grocery store every weekend, and I just noticed, as an example, that the hamburger for my barbecue yesterday was down $2 from a couple of weeks ago. And so I'm seeing prices move in the right direction.
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Hassett also had an explanation for Trump’s terrible polls.
