Its no problem!

We are all constantly berated by so many forms of dishonesty that it can be easy to mix them up.

Another post i responded too a few days ago had a significant number of people explaining to them the difference between gaslighting and guilt tripping.

But yeah, weasel words are a way of intelligent people lying as you say.

It’s basically the art of constructing some kind of way to wiggle out of some kind of position you held or thing you promised to do by being just vague or non commital, giving unspecified qualifiers, or using technical jargon or equivocating contextual word meanings such that you can technically not have lied or reversed course, in a possible future scenario.

Trump is just blatantly bullshitting.

Imagine if Trump had said:

Oh yeah, I don’t support all of what Planned Parenthood does, some of it is ridiculous and abysmal, but hey they’re good people and I hope they succeed.

Its contradictory, vague and just means nothing. Its like the paradox of meeting two people where one says ‘B always lies’ and the other says ‘A is telling the truth.’

The only thing possible to discern is that neither A nor B are totally truthful, thus, extending the analogy, the seemingly contradictory statement is not trustworthy to actually mean anything.

The multiple parts of the stated information just make no sense when taken in totality.

If anyone said something like that online in a forum, it would pretty quickly be determined that they are either quite stupid, actually some kind of insane, or trolling/ragebaiting.