How Trump Broke Fact-Checking
One candidate speaks the truth and the other is a firehose of outlandish lies. Yet the convention is to “fact-check” both candidates equally.
What Harris said was absolutely true, yet the Times is compelled to say it “needs context”—the context being that Trump doesn’t want to be taken literally.
The context needs context, too: namely, that Trump regularly seeks to incite violence. It’s not a one-off; it’s what he does.