Fascinating story from @ganjansen: Courts grappling with what to make of President Trump's tweets have largely concluded that just because the president says something, even on matters of national security, that doesn't make it so.
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The courts' conclusions – that the president’s statements on national security are not always to be taken literally, or to be trusted – are legal victories for his Justice Department, which has argued that there's no evidence he knows what he's talking about. 
As President @realDonaldTrump tweets, his administration has been telling federal courts not to take his public comments at face value. For example ->
The story -> usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Also, disclosure: I'm a plaintiff in one of these lawsuits, which means @usatoday is in the perhaps strange position of arguing that the Trump administration is wrong and courts should presume the president knows what he's talking about.
