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#408 - It's For Nobody (w/ Ethan Strauss)

The Fifth Column

CHAPTER

The Importance of Truth in Politics

CNN's Matt Welch says the president has a well established pattern of saying things so often that you think they're true and then they get a little bit of embellishment with each telling of the story. "He is going out and saying my son died in Iraq and it's like can I just let me just look on my phone yeah I can figure out that he's lying about right" The former White House chief of staff also said there were comes we have a combination of 50 years in politics in which he has always been mixing reality and fantasy to some degree or embellishing his familiar life story.

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