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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Hillary was napping with her lesbian lover when Benghazi blew up!" . . Come CAPTION Donald Trump!!!
Donald ("Sentimental as a stone" Trump is saying: "Lester, Lester, . . Ah, excuse me! . . . Lester. . . . I wasn't wrong when I said Hillary was asleep when Benghazi blew up. . . . Of course, I knew it happened in the middle of the afternoon Washington time. . . . Everybody knows that. . . . But literal sleeping doesn't only have to mean sleeping. . . . And what my sources told me is that she was literaly sleeping. . . . So you see, it hinges on what 'literally' literally means. . . . In other words, I was right on the money!"
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Above CAPTION based on the 2.23.16 One-On-One interview with Lester Holt, a clip from which is on Crooks and Liars:
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/donald-trump-cant-stop-making-stuff-tells
randome
(34,845 posts)"We're millionaires, boys! I'll share it with all of you! Why, in a few months, it'll be up in lights on Broadway: Trump, the Eighth Wonder of the World!
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)...for parsing the context of the word "is."
Captioning at DU is a creative sport, but we usually try to capture the essence of our subject and channel it for satiric purposes.
(Actually, if you see the clip, Trump gets out of his lie by alluding to the fact (never looking straight on) that he might not have meant it literally. Just as sleazy, if you ask me.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,363 posts)And, probably, behind closed doors, "Hillaried". She may have helped parse a few choice words for him.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)"I don't mean to suggest that Hillary is worried that Obama will throw her in jail because top-secret e-mail to her was hacked into by our enemies who now have an arsenal of blackmail material on her so she would become our traitor-in-chief and would bring this nation to its knees if she were elected President. . . . That's only what I'm hearing is all."