> when all facts came to light Maybe you meant it harmlessly, but this phrase sets off my BS detector. It's invariably used to excuse bad behavior by people wh

> when all facts came to light Maybe you meant it harmlessly, but this phrase sets off my BS detector. It's invariably used to excuse bad behavior by people who knew better but pretended otherwise for political gain. It conflates when you personally learned the facts with when the involved parties learned the facts. See also: "no one knew Kyle Rittenhouse didn't murder a bunch of black people in a crowd until these facts came to light in the trial!" or "we didn't know that the Biden laptop was real until these facts came to light in 2022!" or "we didn't know the lab leak was a real possibility until new facts came to light!" In each case, the facts were already there for everyone to see, they were just ignored for political reasons until it was too late.