Charles Blow explodes on conservative claiming everyone should 'calm down' every time Trump lies
TOM BOGGIONI
05 MAR 2017 AT 12:27 ET
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Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources with host Brain Stetler, Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway attempted to brush aside reaction to Trump’s stunning accusation that President Barack Obama personally ordered wire taps in Trump Tower as media “hysteria.”
“It seems that the press always reacts the same way, which is very hysterically to everything that Trump says,” Hemingway explained. “Not that it’s not frustrating to deal with a president who is so imprecise, who says things without proof — that is frustrating. At the same time, I think this constant level of hysteria causes people to either tune out or get hysterical themselves. And that is not a great public service.”
Asked to respond by host Stetler, Blow cut right to the chase.
“We have to dispense with all euphemisms about whether or not he’s using precision in language or not,” Blow remarked. “The president is actually lying, and we have to continuously say that the president is actually lying. That is an assault on the truth itself. It is an assault on the legitimacy of the presidency itself.”
“Another thing you have to it remember is that when we stop believing in the president, that’s not just his credibility that’s being burned through, that’s American credibility,” he continued. “We cannot continue to grade him on some sort of curve where we have to translate and sift through the true parts of what he’s saying from the things he’s saying that are provable and demonstrable lies.”
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