Carl Bernstein Says Donald Trump Has More Disdain for Facts than Richard M. Nixon

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:40 pm

Carl Bernstein told CNN’s Reliable Sources that Donald Trump “lives and thrives in a fact-free environment.” Worse, “No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way this President-elect does.”

And Bernstein would know. It was he, along with Bob Woodward, who exposed Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

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“Trump lives and thrives in a fact-free environment. No president, including Richard Nixon, has been so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in the way that this president-elect does. It has something to do with the growing sense of authoritarianism that he and his presidency are projecting and the danger of it is obvious and he’s trying to make the conduct of the press an issue not his own conduct.”

Bernstein used Trump’s twitter assault on Indiana steelworker and union leader Chuck Jones to prove “He doesn’t go to a fact-based argument. He goes to an emotional argument.”

As Bernstein pointed out, this is nothing new, with the thin-skinned Trump lashing out at every perceived slight:

“What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie, and ease with lying, that we have not seen before.”

It is not easy surpassing Nixon’s dishonesty and disregard for the facts; Mitt Romney tried, but Donald Trump has done it, and surrounded himself with like-minded conspiracy theorists who prefer fake news to real news.

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.