Jake Tapper Unleashes on Trump’s ‘Cascade of Lies’ About Poll Numbers: He’s ‘Untethered to Facts’

‘Officials unsure of how to deal with a mercurial boss, untethered to facts’

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TAPPER: "Welcome to The Lead, I’m Jake Tapper. We begin with the politics lead, as President Trump prepares to kick off his 2020 campaign launch with a rally tomorrow in Orlando, Florida. His campaign is simultaneously making some major personnel changes as a nod to the President’s difficulty hearing negative news about himself. The President’s re-election efforts have been overshadowed in recent days by some bad internal poll numbers for the President and a cascade of lies about those bad numbers. President Trump again today warning his followers on Twitter, not to believe any 'fake polls' showing him trailing any of the Democrats, but the President’s definition of fake polls apparently means polls he does not like. Sources tell CNN the President’s been angry for days over the leaking of internal polling data from March showing the President trailing Joe Biden in hypothetical match-ups in key battleground states. The New York Times first reported the existence of these ugly numbers, followed by CNN which was then followed by this lie."

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