According to the New York Times, “At CPAC, Trump Misleads About Biden, a Russian Pipeline and Gas Prices”. By way of explanation, “The former president made inaccurate claims about his border wall, the Biden administration and a Russian pipeline, among other topics.”
After a 2016 campaign full of lies and Russians, after four years of incompetence, pettiness, sociopathy, and more lies and more Russians, after a second campaign founded on and consisting of nothing but lies, and after more than a year of the biggest lie, undoubtedly buoyed by Russian trolls, the Times still cannot bring itself to call them “lies”. That is not a “paper of record”. That is a fish wrapper.
This man lies like other people breathe, as does his rebranded party and its propaganda outlets. And their biggest lies threaten to deliver our democracy into the hands of a now fascist party. Calling his lies, his big lies, “inaccurate claims” or saying that he misleads is not journalism. It is high-school level cosplay at journalism. It is a fanciful, sterilized pretense at journalism meant to impress themselves with their own purity. It is a complete mismatch to the cold reality of our current circumstances.