These are the flawed polls #trump wants you to believe

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Within the space of a few hours yesterday, President Donald Trump pinched out a series of tweets related to two different news articles. One included a screenshot from a recent Morning Consult poll, which found that the White House’s immigration ban is “one of Trump’s most popular orders so far.” A second tweet linked to a story from The Hill about a new poll from Emerson College. The headline reads: “Trump administration seen as more truthful than news media: poll.”

Days earlier, Trump said on Twitter that “any negative polls are fake news,” so by that logic, the glowing, Trump Approved™ polls he tweeted yesterday must be non-fake news, right? Not quite.

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