Slate "Nothing Trump Says Can Be Trusted" (yes, I know...and water is wet)
Trump Digs the Hole Deeper
His excuses and justifications for his performance in Helsinki were almost as bad as the debacle itself.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/trumps-excuses-and-justifications-for-his-performance-in-helsinki-were-almost-as-bad-as-the-debacle-itself.html
As appalling as President Trump’s appearance was on Monday in Helsinki, his meeting with congressional leaders back in Washington on Tuesday was…well, not worse, but only a little less disgraceful.
If some of the lawmakers sitting around the table in the White House had not yet regarded Trump as a habitual liar, they could not possibly have escaped that conclusion after this session. One of his lies was so gargantuan, and so obvious, that the lawmakers—and the viewers watching the broadcast of these remarks—could only conclude that Trump regards them as among the most gullible fools on the planet.
Trump said he wanted to clear up a misunderstanding about one of the most-lambasted statements at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. When a reporter fatefully asked him at that event whether he believed his intelligence agencies’ finding that Russia had meddled with the 2016 election, Trump said, “I don’t see any reason why it would be Russia.” But now, 24 hours later, Trump claimed that he meant to say, “I don’t know why it wouldn’t be Russia.”
He added, “That probably clarifies things.” Yes, it clarifies that nothing Trump says can be trusted.
Go back and look at the tape or the transcript of the Helsinki press conference. Two points are clear. First, when Trump made that remark, he was not reading—or misreading—a formal statement; he was speaking spontaneously in response to a reporter’s question.
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