'Lies and distortions': New York Times offers unusually blunt assessment of Trump tactics

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• New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who is an expert on authoritarian movements and leaders, says that Trump's willingness to repeat falsehoods constantly without any regard for their veracity makes him "one of the most skilled propagandists in history."
• Hunter College historian Benjamin Carter Hett asserts that there was a direct link between Trump's campaign of lies and the sort of propaganda that Nazis used to gain power nearly 100 years ago: "Exactly the same kind of thing happened in the very diverse and lively German press of the 1920s and 1930s."

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