11-11-2018, 11:36 PM
(11-11-2018, 08:57 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: I wouldn't announce the hire of someone who was reporting directly to me in a powerful position (after nearly a year of planning to fire her predecessor), and then answer stakeholder questions about the important staff change with, "I don't know the woman I just hired, but I hear she's highly thought of" - especially if I'd recently claimed to know her and had interfaced with her professionally many times. That would be lying.
I'd be prepared to own and answer questions about my hiring decision.
No one asked Trump if he knew Whitaker or whether he was friendly with Whitaker on a social level. Instead, Trump claimed that he didn't know Whitaker several times rather than answering questions about his decision to appoint Whitaker; a man Trump had recently claimed to know and a man with whom Trump had met in a professional capacity many times before appointing him to the highest Justice/LE position in the country.
"KNOW" being the operative word. I know my workmates and my boss but do I "know" them?
Do I know their names? Sure? Do I have an idea about how capable they are in the workplace? Reasonably?
Do I have much of a knowledge of their sense of humour and personality? Mostly
Their desires? Not really
Their history? No
Their experiences? No
Their hopes and passions? No.
In the scheme of things I really do not know them at all or at least well.
Would I be lying if I said I knew them or would I be lying if I said I didn't OR (Pay attention) MAYBE it is subjective?
You can't apply this standard to Trump and his answer because it suits you to dismiss any benefit of the doubt and call it a lie. It is intellectually lazy and ideological and you go out of the way to pronounce such things as facts when they are just your opinion.