Eric Herrera
PHL 2020.17
Tuesday 7:00pm
7 May 2019
Case Study
Aaron Blake of The Washington Post offers various examples of the use of the fallacy
“The Red Herring” in his article titled “Dissecting Donald Trump Jr.’s red-herring-filled defense
of the Trump Tower meeting”. The Red Herring Fallacy is an error in logic where a proposition
is, or is intended to be, misleading in order to make irrelevant or false interferences. In the
General case any logical interference based on fake arguments, intended to replace the lack of
