Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this podcast, the Times’s executive editor Dean Baquet talks about the decision to call out Donald J. Trump’s lies.

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“He lies about small stuff. He says one thing one day and says something different the next day. He insists that things are true that are sort of demonstrably wrong.”

That’s The New York Times’s executive editor, Dean Baquet, on Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Baquet says he cannot recall a time the paper has called out a presidential candidate — or anyone else — using the word “lie” in a Times headline.

But that’s what The Times did after Mr. Trump — who spent years fueling the provably false notion that Barack Obama was born outside the United States — renounced his earlier assertions and then, taking it further, falsely stated that the Clinton campaign actually started the birther rumors.