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September 23, 2016
Kurt Eichenwald
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and knowingly lied. There is no third option.
This time, it is different. Trump cant skip past his perfidy here. There are two recordsone, a previously undisclosed deposition of the Republican nominee testifying under oath, and the second a transcript/video of a Republican presidential debate. In them, Trump tells contradictory versions of the same story with the clashing accounts tailored to provide what he wanted people to believe when he was speaking.
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The deposition was part of a lawsuit hed filed against Richard Fields, who Trump had hired to manage the expansion of his casino business into Florida. In the suit, Trump claimed that Fields had quit and taken all of the information he obtained while working for Trump to another company. Under oath, Trump said he did want to get into casino gambling in Florida but didnt because he had been cheated by Fields.
A lawyer asked Trump, Did you yourself do anything to obtain any of the details with respect to the Florida gaming environment, what approvals were needed and so forth?
Trump: A little bit.
Lawyer: What did you do?
Trump: I actually spoke with Governor-Elect Bush; I had a big fundraiser for Governor-Elect Bush and I think it was his most successful fundraiser, the most successful that he had had up until that point, that was in Trump Tower in New York on Fifth Avenue.
Lawyer: When was that?
Trump: Sometime prior to his election.
Lawyer: You knew that Governor Bush, Jeb Bush at that time, was opposed to expansion of gaming in Florida, didn't you?
Trump: I thought that he could be convinced otherwise.
Lawyer: But you didn't change his mind about his anti-gaming stance, did you?
Trump: Well, I never really had that much of an opportunity because Fields resigned, telling me you could never get what we wanted done, only to do it for another company.
One of these stories is a liea detailed, self-serving fabrication. But unlike the mountain of other lies he has told, this time the character trait that leads to Trumps mendacity is on full display: He makes things up when he doesnt want to admit he lost.
THE REST!:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeb-bush-lie-florida-casino-gambling-502144
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/new-bombshell-trump-committed-perjury-or-lied-about-trying-to-bribe-jeb-theres-no-third-option/
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)had him on, discussing it
they IMPEACHED Clinton over perjury, remember?
and he lost his law license because of it (temporarily, IIRC)
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)they don't care that he lies.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)fantastic presidential demeanor on foreign soil? the most presidential demeanor ever in the history of presidenting?
Before an hour passed, a Mexican official declared that Trumps statement was false, and that President Enrique Peña Nieto had told the Republican nominee that his country would never pony up the cash for the wall. Either Trump lied or Peña Nieto did. The government of Mexicoone of Americas most important trading partners and alliesknows whether a President Trump will be trustworthy or will lie out of convenience, on matters large or small. Shouldnt the American public know the same before it votes in November?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)dealings with Putin, from 60 Minutes to Miss Universe to being so ''brilliant,'' in Putin's mistranslated description, among other ludicrosities?
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)He was for it before he was against it" has ruined other politicians.