Reading Candace Owens interview with Damian Whitworth in the Sunday Times (sorry its behind a paywall) I've copied and pasted this section:'The president was criticised by many in his own party for his slow response to the violence at a 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, which was attended by neo-Nazis and resulted in a murder by a white supremacist following clashes with counter-protesters in which many were injured.In one press conference, Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides”. It is no wonder Trump loves Owens. Not only did she not join other Republicans in condemning him, she resolutely defends the president. Indeed, she says dismissively, “The Charlottesville thing isn’t even something to tackle.”She says it is a “myth” that the president said that the Nazis were good people, because within a few sentences of saying “fine people”, he clarified that this was not a reference to the neo-Nazis. That’s true, he did that. But in his first statement, three days before, he condemned the “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides – on many sides”, leading to criticism that there was an equivalence between the racists and those opposing them. He conspicuously did not mention or specifically condemn white supremacists or neo-Nazis in that first response to the events.Owens is adamant that he did. I try to point out that it was in his later statement that he finally mentioned the white nationalists. “No, it’s the same one,” she insists. *She says it so certainly that I start to wonder if I was confused.* When I check later, I am relieved to find she is wrong. Trump’s initial statement did indeed display a strange reluctance to single out the white supremacists.I point this out to her by email. “There was hatred and violence on both sides – he was absolutely correct and I agree,” she replies.'*She says it so certainly that I start to wonder if I was confused.*So, if you say something often enough and with certainty, even lies become truth or, as Lenin famously put it, 'A lie told often enough becomes the truth.'Paul, her fiance George Farmer is the son of a lord, and a former Tory who defected to the Brexit Party. From the same Sunday Times feature: 'A former Tory fundraiser, he defected to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in April. The son of Lord Farmer, a Tory peer and former metals trader worth £140 million, George was also a former chairman of Turning Point UK, the British branch of the American conservative student group of which Owens was the punchy communications director until she resigned in May.' HTH
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