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The mainstream media then tries to refute these claims using evidence, logic, and linear argument.

They don’t bother to refute charges or engage their opponents’ best arguments.

Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, said it was important not to repeat Trump’s claims but refute them — because they are not grounded in fact, and they undermine the very system he is criticizing by driving down trust and participation among voters.

In a statement, a spokesperson for WEP Inc told BBC News NI the company “strongly deny and refute the assertions which have been made and we look forward to the facts in this matter being ventilated as part of our legal proceedings which have already commenced”.

And it suggested to the public, on a timeline Clinton had little opportunity to refute, that she might have committed crimes, even though she wasn’t being charged with any.