“Presuming a reservoir of goodness in other people,” he said, “that can be a risk.”VideoThat’s one risk Mr. Trump doesn’t take. He values conflict as a productive state to be cultivated, even within his own party. It was reminiscent of last year’s primary, when Mr. Trump appeared with a table stacked with “Trump steaks,” a brand extension that evoked luxury but was in fact no longer for sale. This was just one example of how Mr. Trump can create impressions faster than journalists can fact-check them. Another was how Mr. Trump and Mr. Spicer conflated BuzzFeed’s reporting of the Russia story with CNN’s, which omitted the uncorroborated details.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2017 21:39 UTC