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He probably will claim they were his supporters that got to the inauguration late...

He likes "Alternative facts" like that...
Or as the sane among us say : "He LIES"

The day after White House press secretary Sean Spicer lied through an entire press briefing about the size of the crowds at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Kellyanne Conway insisted he had done no such thing.

“Sean Spicer gave ‘alternative facts,’” Conway, a counselor to Trump, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

Host Chuck Todd immediately called out Conway for equating falsehoods with “alternative facts” ― she, like Trump, claims he had the biggest inauguration turnout ever, which is easily disproven with photos and data ― and then the dictionary itself stepped in to help clear things up.

“A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality,” tweeted the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, who, having had the job of defining words since 1828, knows a thing or two about the English language.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-assault-press_us_5884c85fe4b0e3a73569a11d?kntrxy1zd1wuvunmi
“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe,” Spicer said at his first press briefing.

None of those statements are true. But on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to the president, continued to attack the media for being dishonest and focusing on crowd size ― an issue Trump loved to talk about during his campaign. The Sunday show hosts, however, aggressively went after the Trump administration for its lies.

“Why did the president send out his press secretary ― who is not just the spokesperson for Trump, he is also the spokesperson for all of America at times, he speaks for all of the country at times ― why put him out there for the very first time in front of that podium to utter a provable falsehood?” Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” asked Conway.

The administration may “rethink [its] relationship with the press” if the media continues to criticize Spicer, Conway threatened. She also told Todd not to be “so dramatic” when he said such falsehoods undermine Trump’s press office on its very first day.

“Sean Spicer gave alternative facts to that,” Conway said, regarding crowd size.

“Alternative facts are not facts, they’re falsehoods,” Todd replied, as Conway quickly changed the topic to the Affordable Care Act.

On ABC’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos also pressed Conway on why Spicer “repeated things that just aren’t true” in his press briefing.

“We are going to watch what the president does, we’re going to watch the president says,” Stephanopoulos told her.

Chris Wallace similarly challenged Priebus on “Fox News Sunday.” Wallace said Trump had made statements that were “flat wrong” and that there needed to be discussion about “the president’s honesty.” Wallace showed photos of the crowd at Barack Obama’s first inauguration and compared the number of attendees to the crowd gathered at Trump’s. There’s no question that fewer people attended this year.

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