It was curious enough when Donald Trump’s re-election campaign launched a new “investigative” website yesterday, but the name of the venture is what really raised eyebrows.
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign announced Monday a new “investigative” website that prioritizes “truth over facts.” The site, in fact, is called TheTruthOverFacts.com. The goal of the site, according to a release, is to uncover “the truth behind Joe Biden’s never-ending, seemingly incomprehensible statements during his third, plodding campaign for president.” The release says the site will utilize “experts,” but puts the word in quotation marks.
One of these days, these guys will figure out how quotation marks work and it will be a glorious day for us all.
Regardless, observers immediately speculated as to why in the world the president’s campaign team would prioritize “truth over facts” — as if there were something suspect about facts. More than a few saw Orwellian undertones.
The origin of the name, it turns out, was quite a bit dumber.
Evidently, Joe Biden appeared at the Iowa State Fair last August. As part of an extended riff on how Democrats are different from Republicans, the former president meant to say, “We choose truth over lies.” Instead, Biden accidentally said, “We choose truth over facts.”









