On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” former CBS anchor Dan Rather stated President Trump is trying to move the country “into an Orwellian space where truth doesn’t matter and the opposite of truth is truth.”
Rather said, “This is not normal. we’re better than this. we as a people are better than this, to accept this at all. Look, previous presidents have made big mistakes. yes, previously, presidents sometimes have lied, but none has relentlessly, so consistently lied. … There’s something within Donald Trump that has convinced him, no doubt the election itself, that he can get away with it, that he can say a few months ago, ‘I apologize for it [the Access Hollywood tape]. It was locker room talk.’ And then begin saying, ‘Well, maybe they, in essence, they doctored the tape.’ … We’ve moved into — at least President Trump is trying to move us into an Orwellian space where truth doesn’t matter and the opposite of truth is truth.”
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