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Old 10-07-2018, 03:49 PM
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: There's going to be an 'enormous backlash' against Donald Trump's lies

https://www.businessinsider.com/wiki...-coming-2018-9

"Donald Trump is a very talented man as a TV character, as a manipulator of the media, of news agenda. He's played the entire world. We have to give him some kind of perverse credit for that," Wales told Business Insider.

Trump has managed this, in part, because "he lies all the time and openly and cavalierly doesn't care about the truth," Wales said. But he thinks the truth will eventually catch-up with the president come the 2020 election.

"I actually think there is going to be an enormous backlash. I remain optimistic. I don't think that the public doesn't really care about the truth," said Wales, who set up journalism operation Wiki Tribune to debunk fake news.

"These kind of things are sinking in. The idea that we first of all need to be able to trust our politicians to be honest, then we can have a serious debate about policy is really important."
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