Donald Trump tried to convince a state judge to drop his Georgia election interference case on Thursday, summoning a tortured relationship between falsehoods and truths to make his case.
Trump’s lawyers argued that lies aren’t just protected by the First Amendment; lies are sometimes essential, his lawyers said, at getting to the truth.
Ok I’ve read the headline like ten times. That’s not a sentence, right?
Headlines are really annoyingly hard to parse sometimes. It’s saying:
Trump Tells Atlanta Judge: “Lies help get to the truth”
Which is pretty fuckin stupid
Wow, thank you. It would be so much clearer if they didn’t omit the word “that”.
It makes sense if your idea of truth is “whatever I say that they’ll believe”
Maybe it is Trump Tells Atlanta “Judge lies” HELP get to the truth.
Or Trump Tells Atlanta Judge “lies” help get to the truth.
Or Trump Tells Atlanta Judge “lies help” get to the truth?