Editing Credibility gap (section)

==Later usage==
After the Vietnam War, the term "credibility gap" came to be used by political opponents in cases where an actual, perceived or implied discrepancy existed between a politician's public pronouncements and the actual, perceived or implied reality. For example, in the 1970s the term was applied to Nixon's own handling of the Vietnam War<ref name="time">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876891,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221212832/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876891,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 21, 2008|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=April 5, 1971|title=Again, the Credibility Gap? }}</ref> and subsequently to the discrepancy between evidence of [[Richard Nixon]]'s complicity in the [[Watergate]] break-in and his repeated claims of innocence.

Since 2017, the term has been used to describe the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]], particularly in relation to the use of what [[White House Counsel]] [[Kellyanne Conway]] called [[alternative facts]].<ref name="Hoh">{{cite news|last1=Hohmann|first1=James|title=The Daily 202: It's bigger than Flynn. New Russia revelations widen Trump's credibility gap.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/02/15/daily-202-it-s-bigger-than-flynn-new-russia-revelations-widen-trump-s-credibility-gap/58a3c5b9e9b69b1406c75cb4/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_daily202-1045a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory|accessdate=February 15, 2017|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 15, 2017}}</ref><ref name="USAToday">{{cite news|title=Credibility gap: Our view|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/23/spicer-inauguration-crowds-credibility-editorials-debates/96956320/|accessdate=February 15, 2017|work=[[USA Today]]|date=January 23, 2017}}</ref>