criss_cross@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agoTrump Called Epstein Right After Winning 2016 Electionnewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1442arrow-down13
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minus-squareunmagical@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up44arrow-down2·7 months ago“Right” in this context indicates temporal proximity and not correctness, BTW.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·7 months agoYeah, “immediately” would have been a better choice.
minus-squarec0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agothis also didn’t make sense to me lol, id rephrase the title as “Right After Winning the 2016 Election, Trump Called Epstein”
minus-squareAmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoTook me a second to realize how it was meant to be interpreted. The fact that we could plausibly interpret it as trump calling him correct about something in some way though is still immensely disappointing about our reality.
“Right” in this context indicates temporal proximity and not correctness, BTW.
Yeah, “immediately” would have been a better choice.
this also didn’t make sense to me lol, id rephrase the title as “Right After Winning the 2016 Election, Trump Called Epstein”
Took me a second to realize how it was meant to be interpreted.
The fact that we could plausibly interpret it as trump calling him correct about something in some way though is still immensely disappointing about our reality.