Keep in mind the author Ms Rubin is a conservative republican. Here's a snippet:
Interviewers cannot let Trump’s lies fly by
By Jennifer Rubin December 5 at 10:30 AM
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Trump’s assault on the truth goes a long way toward explaining his unhinged attacks on the media. He and his advisers scream bloody murder when the press reports his own words. That’s not “dishonest” or “liberal bias” as he says — it’s reporting on the objective reality (what came out of his own mouth), something that threatens Trump’s stranglehold on the national conversation. His bizarre notion that we should not take him “literally” (i.e., expect him to believe what he says) sums up the Orwellian world in which he operates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/12/05/interviewers-cannot-let-the-lies-fly-by/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3fbb9294af15
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