The old adage goes that a lie told often enough becomes the truth. The partisan politics that divide our nation are a good example that it is true. When President Trump said “we will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it,” I understood him to say he would build some sort of impediment to the free flow of aliens that cross our southern border and that the flow of money that was derived from those aliens that was flowing (untaxed) back across the border would be stopped and that would be enough to pay for those impediments.
The alphabet news outlets immediately picked up the statement and used those words as the literal meaning.
In years before “advocacy journalism” came into vogue, any one of the journalists would have asked for clarification of the statement.
This statement morphed into Trump is a racist, and a xenophobe. This is only one of the many examples of the dishonesties that our media are perpetuating. Then the talking heads on the same networks report their untruths over and over. Then you have innocent folks believing it to be true.
Shame on the media.
