Source: Orange Country Register
by Rafael Perez
“The Trump administration should accept that facts are their friends, even when they hurt. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lieutenant General Jeffery Kruse after he delivered the hard fact that the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were not quite as destructive as they had hoped. Last month, Trump fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer for delivering facts about a slump in job growth. It would be easy to compare these anti-fact firings to how dictators and fascists in other countries have attempted to obfuscate the truth in order to present themselves in a flattering fashion …. It would also be easy to point out that, if Trump cared about how the American people fared, he would ignore how unsavory facts portray his administration in favor of using those facts to make robust decisions for the common good.” (08/27/25)