In a segment titled “So many lies, So little time” on his Sunday show Reliable Sources, CNN's Brian Stelter complained about the hardship of fact-checking every one of President Trump's statements: “Should there be a bug in the corner of the screen that says, ‘Warning, the president's probably misleading you again’?” A panelist later offered another imaginative suggestion: to assume that everything the president said was false, and “fact-check him backwards.”
The segment commenced with a lengthy Stelter monologue, in which the CNN host spent a solid four minutes exploring various new and creative ways to restate that the president was a frequent liar. “By now we all know Trump lies in tweets, he spreads false information at rallies, and he spins and misleads when he sits down for friendly interviews on Fox and Friends,” Stelter rattled off. -- More....