President Donald Trump is winning the war on truth, veteran journalist Carl Bernstein told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday.
"It's not just President Trump who's winning that war; it's the forces of those who believe in untruth and paramount among those forces is Donald Trump and the way he looks at the world."
Although Bernstein said previous presidents have also lied, he emphasized that "we have never had a president of the United States who uses lying and untruth as a basic method to promote his policies, his beliefs and his way of approaching the American people and engaging with the world."
Bernstein added that Trump’s “default position is to use untruth to go toward his objectives," and his phrase that the press is the “enemy of the people,” has "echoes of totalitarianism."
Trump used the phrase again at a Montana rally to praise “a congressional candidate for body slamming a reporter in the same time period in which [Saudi] reporter [Jamal Khashoggi] has been murdered, perhaps dismembered by an outlaw rogue state actor," said Bernstein.
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