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In his interrogation of Jesus, Pontius Pilate famously asked "What is truth?"
Pundits, politicians and philosophers are still wrestling with the question today.
"Truth isn't truth," Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, declared on "Meet the Press" last August, frustrated with what he saw as competing versions of reality. The widely mocked comment was reminiscent of the "alternative facts" touted by Kellyanne Conway, another Trump adviser, on the same show in 2017.
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