Trump’s advisers explicitly claimed facts no longer exist in politics

Evidence

After the election, things only got worse. Trump claimed—again with no facts to back him up—that he had actually won the popular vote (which Hillary Clinton had taken by nearly 3 million votes), if one deducted the millions of people who had voted illegally. And he doubled down on his claim that—despite the consensus of seventeen American intelligence agencies—the Russians had not hacked the American election. One of his handlers seemed to embrace the chaos by arguing that “there’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.” — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 24

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trump treats truth as socially confirmed approximation rather than correspondence to fact — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 339; Trumpspeak treats belief and usefulness as substitutes for factual truth — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 342; Falsifiable claims coexisted with advisers rejecting evidential standards outright — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 25 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Trumpspeak treats belief and usefulness as substitutes for factual truth #corroborates (0.92) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 342
• Falsifiable claims coexisted with advisers rejecting evidential standards outright #exemplifies (0.85) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 25
• Republicans in the Trump era regularly issued accusations they knew might be untrue. #expands (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 107