Trump’s press spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on June 27, 2017, “I think it’s the constant barrage of fake news that is directed at this president, probably, that has garnered a lot of his frustration.” In the very next sentence she promoted the latest release by a notorious producer of fraudulently edited polemical videos: “There’s a video circulating now—whether it’s accurate or not, I don’t know—but I would encourage everyone in this room and, frankly, everybody across the country to take a look at it.”49 To shift in under a minute from denouncing as “fake” news that is true, and
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