“Who needs facts when you can just make up stuff as you go along..”
Absolutely correct. This was the Trump Doctrine as articulated by Kellyanne Conway when confronted with Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s breathtaking lie about the size of the crowd at Trump’s 2016 inauguration on the Mall where he insisted it was the largest crowd in history (assuming you included all those watching on Fox News in Belarus). As explained by Kellyanne: “We are entitled to use our alternative facts”.