Fact-checking was never part of the process. He now had access to experts on basically every subject known to humanity but would rely instead on something he saw on Fox News or read online without asking if it was true or caring if it was not. Spelling and punctuation were strictly optional. “He often said that he was creating a new language,” Westerhout recalled.[34] At the beginning, he tweeted on average nine times a day, and many were so inflammatory that he would generate multiple news stories. When Washington erupted in outrage over some wild tweet, he took it as a victory—“owning the
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