Greg Sargent comments on the Post‘s latest category of President Trump’s misleading statements: “The key point here is that Trump is not engaged in conventional lying. He’s engaged in spreading disinformation.” From Sargent’s excellent book: Trump isn’t trying to persuade anyone to believe his lies as much as he’s trying to render factual reality irrelevant — thus reducing the pursuit of agreement on it to just another part of the media circus in which he thrives… There is a reason Trump regularly tells lies that are very easy to debunk: The whole point of them is to assert the power to say what the truth is, even when — or especially when — easily verifiable facts, ones that are right in front of our noses, dictate the contrary.