English example sentences with "after the fact"

Before the fact? Or after the fact?

The effort to remake Trump's image after the fact is continuously being undermined by the man himself, who has never changed and never will.

We idealize everybody’s thinking, and even our own access to reasons, blithely attributing phantom bouts of clever reasoning to ourselves after the fact.

She realized her mistake after the fact.

You made the commitment, and you can't change the terms after the fact.