4.18.2025

Take-a-deep-breath-ism

No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling

[CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins' Oval Office questions] are only one egregious example of the over-the-top and inaccurate way in which this case has been framed by Trump critics. But the administration has also engaged in serious distortion of this case, for example when it says that it won in the Supreme Court 9–0.

Hyperbole is the new disinformation. We all should take note. (Yes. including me. Take-a-deep-breath-ism will be our policy going forward.)

I don't know how much of the article linked above you can read without a subscription but the gist is, it's not pretty but it's not what either side claims. Exactly.

(And, on the subject of disinformation, here's another article from the same publication, The Free Press.)

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