Tag: Orwellian

“Truth isn’t truth? Mr Mayor, do you realize … I mean, this is going to become a bad meme.” The Mr Mayor to whom he was referring, creator of the bad meme, was Rudy Giuliani, legendary New York mayor on 9/11. Now Trump’s attorney on the Russia investigation, he was trying to justify why the White House has been dragging its feet over granting an interview between the president and special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump's 'good person' defence could affect jurors in Manafort trial Read more “No, no, don’t do this to me,” Giuliani said, head in hands, when he realized the hole he had dug for himself. “Don’t do ‘Truth isn’t truth’ to me,” Todd replied, still scarcely holding it together. At which point, Giuliani did the only thing that came to mind: he dug deeper, into competing versions of events regarding former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Russia and fired FBI director James Comey. “Donald Trump says, ‘I didn’t talk about Flynn with Comey’, Comey says, ‘You did talk about it’. So tell me what the truth is, you’re such a genius.” Chuck Todd may not be a genius. But he was smart enough not to answer the question. Still bearing a broad grin, he let the new bad meme soar into the digital firmament.

CNN's Alisyn Camerota compares the White House's omission of Russian President Vladimir Putin's verbal support for President Trump in the 2016 election from the Helsinki summit transcript to something that could have happened in a George Orwell novel.