To be completely fair, this is hardly anything new or limited to the Trump administration. Our entire society, especially at the political, corporate, and legal levels, is built around using semantics to escape accountability, avoid responsibility, and downplay everything. I guarantee you that any administration caught in this kind of scandal would be hiding behind a team of lawyers using as many semantics as possible to avoid taking responsibility.

This is merely the end result of a society that grossly encourages deflecting responsibility for virtually anything.