{"id":31879,"date":"2018-08-18T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31879"},"modified":"2018-08-18T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:36:04","slug":"facts-are-facts-period-mr-mayor-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31879","title":{"rendered":"Facts are facts, period, Mr. Mayor … really!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rudy Giuliani seems to have swilled Kellyanne Conway’s potion that allows for the belief in “alternative facts.”<\/p>\n

Conway is the White House senior policy adviser to coined the “alternative facts” gem while responding to questions about then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s various assertions about this and that.<\/p>\n

Now we have Donald Trump’s current personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, telling CNN’s Chris Cuomo that “nowadays … facts are the eyes of the beholder.”<\/p>\n

Whoa! Hold on, Mr. Mayor.<\/p>\n

From where I come from, facts are facts. There can be disputing the nature of facts. You either tell the truth or you lie.<\/p>\n

Giuliani was responding to questions from Cuomo about the president’s harsh words about another former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman.<\/p>\n

Giuliani made the “eye of the beholder” crack, to which Cuomo reminded him that there’s no such qualifier involved with “facts.”<\/p>\n

As USA Today reported: Whether intended in humor or not, the former New York mayor’s remark feeds into a perception among critics that the Trump administration often rejects objective facts and tries to confuse the public about what is true.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump’s rejection of facts dates back at least to his refusal to accept that former President Barack Obama was a U.S. citizen despite being presented with conclusive evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n

If all this idiocy didn’t involve the very credibility of our head of state, I would be laughing my behind off.<\/p>\n

I’m not laughing now … any more than I laughed at Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” nonsense.<\/p>\n\n

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Rudy Giuliani seems to have swilled Kellyanne Conway’s potion that allows for the belief in “alternative facts.” Conway is the White House senior policy adviser to coined the “alternative facts” gem while responding to questions about then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s various assertions about this and that. Now we have Donald Trump’s current personal … Continue reading Facts are facts, period, Mr. Mayor … really!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[540,966,1043,1424],"class_list":["post-31879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-barack-obama","tag-chris-cuomo","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31881,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31879\/revisions\/31881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}