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Jake Tapper interviews Senator Roy Blunt on President Trump's many falsehoods.

By Michael Gordon
05/12/2018 • 12:00 AM EST

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: minimizationsee definition - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Blunt trivializes Trump's use of falsehoods, in light of other things he believes people are more concerned about.
: minimizationsee definition - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Blunt trivializes Trump's lack of honesty with the public, in light of all the great things he feels Trump is getting done.
: minimizationsee definition - characterizing something that you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, in order to shift the focus away from it and onto "more important" things.
: Blunt trivializes Trump's tendency to either mislead the public or "not have all the facts," in light of how accessible he is to the press.

Total number of techniques detected over the 06:22 runtime of this video clip:

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

3 OCCURRENCES

minimization:      

FALSEHOODS & DISTORTIONS

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SUMMARY

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Blunt: 100%

References
1. "President Trump has made 9,014 false or misleading claims over 773 days". The Washington Post. Published: March 04, 2019.