Alternative fact

They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.

According to Donald Trump we live in an era of "fake news" where his "alternative facts" should be swallowed whole, and without scrutiny.

Prime ministers have not been immune to spreading alternative facts.

― Secretary: Now, I did not mislead you. That was merely an alternative fact.

Association of Herpes Viral Infections, Antiherpetic Therapy, and Dementia: Real or Alternative Fact?

And when presidential counsellor Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” a few days after Trump’s inauguration in early 2017, the mendacity of the incoming administration appeared to be all but official.

That Newton was an empirical scientist is a fact. An alternative fact is that he was an alchemist.