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-Removed-Donald Trump does it habitually. As do his apologists. 'Alternative facts' is one of their more glaring ones.
As Senator Pat Moynihan said, people are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Once you sow the seeds of doubt about what a fact is, you can twist any fact around to mean whatever you want it to and deny responsibility for it because you've made it seem to be objectively true.
'Once zee rockets are up, who cares where zey come down -- not my responsibility ' says Werner von Braun. And exactly analogously, Trump denies responsibility for inciting sedition on Jan. 6, because he had deliberately sown the seeds of doubt well in advance ...