Jake Tapper interviews Senator Roy Blunt on the significance of President Trump's falsehoods.

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

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: minimizationsee definition - portraying something you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, to divert attention from it and onto matters deemed more important.
: Blunt trivializes concerns about Trump’s use of falsehoods, given what he claims are issues of greater public concern. more...
: minimizationsee definition - portraying something you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, to divert attention from it and onto matters deemed more important.
: Blunt downplays public concerns about Trump’s credibility, given what he describes as Trump’s many supposed successes. more...
: minimizationsee definition - portraying something you don't want to address as trivial or insignificant, to divert attention from it and onto matters deemed more important.
: Blunt downplays Trump’s tendency to mislead the public—or to be misinformed—given what he portrays as Trump’s supposed accessibility to the press. more...

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