The pattern has repeated itself for years.
Step 1: President Donald Trump makes a false or inflammatory claim.
Step 2: Trump’s officials try to walk back the claim. They’ll say Trump meant something else or offer a statement more factual than Trump’s own.
Step 3: Trump ignores them and repeats the original claim.
It happened twice in the last 24 hours, once on grocery prices and once on the deployment of FBI agents during the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Grocery prices
Customers use a self checkout lane at a Walmart Supercenter in Floirida on October 10. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images/File
Step 1: Trump makes a false claim: Trump has repeatedly claimed this fall that grocery prices are “down” or “way down” during his second presidency.
CNN and others have pointed out that this is not tr
Continue Reading on CNN
This preview shows approximately 15% of the article. Read the full story on the publisher's website to support quality journalism.