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Q: Q1: What does "nondenial denial" mean?
What does " on-the-record denials" mean?

Q2: Regarding "press secretaries typically reserve their on-the-record denials for reports that are outright false",

Q3: what are out right false? "denials" or "reports"??

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WASHINGTON — Just before Election Day, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered a secret deal by The National Enquirer to buy the silence of a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Donald J. Trump, his campaign issued a flat denial.

“We have no knowledge of any of this,” Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, told the newspaper. She said the claim of an affair was “totally untrue.”

Then last week, when The New York Times revealed the existence of a recorded conversation about the very payment Mr. Trump denied knowing about, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, described the recording as “exculpatory” — suggesting it would actually help Mr. Trump if it became public.

Finally, the tape has become public. And it revealed the statements by Ms. Hicks and Mr. Giuliani to be false. The recording, which was broadcast by CNN late Tuesday night, shows Mr. Trump was directly involved in talks about whether to pay The Enquirer for the rights to the woman’s story.

The recording, and the repeated statements it contradicts, is a stark example of how Mr. Trump and his aides have used falsehoods as a shield against tough questions and unflattering coverage. Building upon his repeated cry of “fake news,” he told supporters this week not to believe the news. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” the president added.

In a capital where politicians have made an art form of the nondenial denial, press secretaries typically reserve their on-the-record denials for reports that are outright false. Candidates can weather most embarrassing stories, and spokespeople know that getting caught in a lie only make things worse.

A: “non denial denial” is when someone phrases their denial of something that they know is the truth in a way that plays with words and does not directly deny it.
Like if I ask someone : “did you steal the money?”, and he replies : “Stealing money is an unethical thing to do and I condemn it with the strongest of words”. He didn’t deny he stole, but his wording gives the impression that he denies it. So it’s a non-denial denial.

“On-the-record” is used when you truly mean what you say, and you want it to be remembered and you say it explicitly. Like someone who opposes a plan says : “I want to go on-the-record and say I completely oppose this plan”.

“Outright” describes anything that is unquestionably what it is described. Like saying “fire will outright burn you”, there is no question about it, and it will completely do it.

So, if something has to be denied because it is unquestionably (outright) false, press secretaries denied it explicitly (on-the-record), which are usually universally agreed upon unacceptable things, so they are easy to deny.

When things were in an area they could play with words to keep things (especially reports about misconduct of Trump) unclear if it is ever to be uncovered later that it was true, they did the non-denial denial.

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