Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
When person or group can't change the actual facts, they frequently resort to discrediting the message or messenger.
There's nothing wrong with challenging or discrediting the source if there's some reason to believe the source is wrong, incompetent, or biased. Reporters and journalists are supposed to investigate the source and determine if it's a bona fide source. Even bona fide sources can be wrong and often are. I investigate and research sources all the time, almost every time if the source is new or unfamiliar to me. I did that with the Center for Security Policy the first time Trump put it out.

But for PolitiFact and every other anti-Trump medium to lie about a bona fide source, bona fide because they have testified before Congress, to attack Trump, is just wrong. If the source isn't bona fide, then you attack the Center for Security Policy, not Trump who simply relied on the data the same as Congress would have done.

People have to remember that unlike most of the other candidates, Trump is not and has never been part of government anywhere so he doesn't have access to government information, not that it's any more reliable than other sources at times, but he's not part of a government body that can call up information, that can quickly access data, that has hordes of folks and staff to run down information for him. He's just a citizen like we are and the only information he has available to him is the same information that's available to us.