Are Trump falsehoods actually lies? Dan Abrams debates Salon

Are factual inaccuracies in Trump’s speeches and tweets lies or just non-truthful statements? Is there a difference? ABC’s News chief legal correspondent Dan Abrams offers an articulate, lawyerly defense. Plus, he takes Salon back to 1859 and into a murder trial courtroom with Abraham Lincoln, nine months before he got the Republican nomination, the backdrop of Abrams’ new book “Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency.” The book tells the story of the only transcript of Lincoln’s law career ever found. Abrams relates lessons from Lincoln’s courtroom to today as U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation presses on and the idea of President Trump’s assessment of truth is continually questioned.

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