adding qualifiers - adding an extra word or phrase to a response, which makes it ultimately meaningless, but still leaves the desired impression.
: Scott has "had an opportunity" to vote against spending packages, which is not to say Scott actually voted against spending packages.

adding qualifiers - adding an extra word or phrase to a response, which makes it ultimately meaningless, but still leaves the desired impression.
: Scott says school parents "under this DOJ" are called domestic terrorists, which is not saying that the school parents were called, by this DOJ, domestic terrorists.^[12]