Gist: "I Never Said That"

On The Gist, Zuckerberg’s hearings got crowded out by bigger news. Too bad. Facts are facts, even in the greatly polarized year that is 2018. Holmes Lybrand writes the Weekly Standard’s “Fact Check” series, and even though it isn’t all about Trump’s latest tweets and utterances, it sometimes gets readers angry. In the Spiel, the president’s saber rattling over Syria is classic Trump: The man lies about his past statements.