Ideological concerns aside, Marshall argued that "Trump's repeated false statements were so brazen and repetitive" as to put all of the media's traditional rules and practices "under strain." Trump keeps saying that he opposed the Iraq War when the evidence from 2002 and 2003 shows he supported it. And the birther in chief who made his name on the right by insinuating for years that Barack Obama was ineligible to be president had the effrontery to say, falsely, that Clinton had started the whole thing.