France-Info has a new bulletin every 7 minutes, and in each of those I heard the journalists poked fun at the various politico's inconsistencies or outright lies.
These people were already public personae then, and they were in the media all the times - tons of unimpeachable sources are making a joke of their claims (Juppé was in the morning in Colombey, for a ceremony to mark de Gaulle's death, and the next day at the national assembly; his memoirs published a few years ago note that he was in Berlin on 16 November, but have no mention of him there before; one of the participants claimed they went to Berlin by train, after having heard 'in the morning' that things were happening over there; etc, etc... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
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