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'Lying' Trump caught using made-up story to justify slashing national monument: NY Times
Trump Needed a Fiction to Shrink Bears EarsThe Lie Was the PolicyTrump did not discover a hidden access problem at Bears Ears. He invented one, then used the invention to justify stripping more than 1.2 million acres of protection from a monument that already allowed recreation. The government documents make the sequence plain: the false story came first, the rollback followed.That matters because it shows how executive power now works in practice. The decision was not driven by evidence, but by a preferred outcome in search of a public justification.The Briefing Already ExistedThe public…
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