give credence to

We must not give credence to the fallacy that it is possible to find legitimate loopholes to accepting the will of the voters.

But watching the move as a spectator doesn’t necessarily give credence to its intensity — despite the wolf turn’s seeming ease, however, it’s anything but.

If we cast our lot with those who think we should concentrate solely on Trump and his childish, shallow antics, what we really do is give Trump a win the only way he can get one; we give credence to Trump’s pernicious, authoritarian movement.

District Judge Aileen Cannon that seemed to give credence to Trump’s legally dubious claim that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to take the documents home to Mar-a-Lago.

District Judge Aileen Cannon asking for proposed jury instructions that seemed to give credence to Trump’s claim that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to deem government records as personal property.