This behavior has sparked a kind of existential debate within the U.S. news media: How should a news organization respond when
the President makes false statements or repeats unsupported claims?
Not exact matches
The plaintiffs echo PFM's lawsuit from October, accusing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former
president Ramesh «Sunny» Balwani of spoon - feeding investors continuous lies,
making false promises «built on
false statements and omissions.»
National Public Radio, for example, said this week that it has chosen not to use the word «lie» in reference to the
false or inaccurate
statements that
President Trump
makes because the intent behind those
statements can not be known.
An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to
President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to
making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.
A few minutes later, court documents were unsealed showing that George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser on Trump's campaign, pleaded guilty to
making a
false statement to the FBI about his efforts to broker a relationship between Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
While there are reasons Trump may want to skip an interview — «there is no point in walking in and providing more information to the special counsel and risk the possibility of
making false statements» — the
president and his team must also take public reaction into account, Ray said.
He is so desperate he is taking
statements President Obama
made and editing them into the opposite of the
President said and
making false lying TV ads of it.
«I am saying this because Nana Addo's way of dealing with issues as a leader always shows he has no intentions of becoming a
president, as he always connive with his members to
make false statements and also speak against whatever the current government does.»
The Pittsburgh law firm representing a company that wants to build a water treatment plant in Coudersport, PA to treat natural gas fracking waste has told the Seneca Nation and
President Todd Gates to keep quiet about the plant, saying he is
making «
false, destructive and defamatory
statements.»
Computers Plus counterclaimed against the State claiming that State employees
made several
false statements about Computers Plus and its
president that Computers Plus claimed ruined its reputation and destroyed its business.
In this hypothetical (unless it's happened in the past), a prominent citizen or news agency
makes statements about the
president, or his decisions or policies, that are knowingly inaccurate or
false while he is in office.
In this hypothetical (unless it's happened in the past), a prominent citizen or news agency
makes statements about the
president, or his decisions or policies, that are knowingly inaccurate or
false...
Today, Planned Parenthood executive vice
president Dawn Laguens sent Fiorina a letter asking her to stop
making false statements about Planned Parenthood and inviting her to come visit a clinic to see the truth about the organization's true impact.