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Sebastian Gorka: post hoc

Article: Answering with Whataboutisms
Published: July 16, 2017

post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist.
: Crediting Trump for all ISIS territorial losses after he took office, when those victories were just a continuation of a strategy started under Obama in 2015.^[1]