Jake Tapper Says Trump Has Raised ‘Level of Falsehood’
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Jake Tapper stopped by and gave his thoughts on Trump.
“I’ve never really seen this level of falsehood,” Tapper said. “Just quantitatively. It’s not just ‘If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor,’ it’s conspiracy theories based on nothing that have members of his own party distancing themselves from him.”
Tapper was answering Maher’s question about how his job has changed since Trump took office, with Maher pointing out what other media critics have noted: Tapper “sounds different” lately, taking a blunter approach in “speaking truth to crazy.”
“Politicians lie,” Tapper said. “It wasn’t invented on January 20.” But Trump, he suggested, has upped the dishonesty quotient by combining conspiracy theories with “an attempt to discredit the entire fourth estate, the entire media, we’re all fake news except for Fox And Friends.”
“The truth of the matter is that there’s no bias when it comes to facts and there’s no bias when it comes to decency,” Tapper said. “It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled. You don’t have to be a Democrat or a Republican or Independent or socialist or libertarian. That is just indecent. My children know better than that.”
