Announcement: If you hire former Trump Administration press secretaries, “Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”
“[W]e need to return to a standard of truth when it comes to how the government communicates with the governed.”
—Randall Lane, Forbes magazine chief content officer and editor, “A Truth Reckoning: Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied for Trump Accountable,” Forbes, Jan. 7, 2021.
• Editorial Comment: They were true alternative facts.
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