Below, the 13 wildest lines of what ABC has published from the interview.
Everywhere, huh? They must be really good polls!
3. "I've just been given a meeting with my pollster who – frankly, I do not even believe the pollsters, if you want to know the truth – you're just running a campaign and no matter what it is . "
Follow this logic: Trump comes from a meeting with his pollster, but he does not even believe pollsters. So, how, why, what? In addition, does anyone else remember that Trump would start almost every election campaign at the 2016 primary by reviewing the latest polls where he was ahead? Yeah me too.
4. "But I just have a meeting with a pollster and I win everywhere."
D & # 39; AGREEMENT. So, Point 1: Trump does not believe pollsters. Point 2: He just met a pollster and he "wins everywhere". THAT MADE A SENS FOR ME !!!!
5. "So, on" Good Morning America "today, they had these fake survey information.I explained to you last night that it was fake, but you don't have it. did nothing to fix it. "
One day has elapsed between quotes four and five. But Trump remains TRUS a lot Trump. So, he watched "Good Morning America" (of course because he knew he was going to be on the spot) and disagreed with their decision to conduct a credible and serious poll that showed that he did not succeed well. This is a good reminder of two basic truths about Trump: 1) he watches a LOT of TV 2) he calls everything he does not like "fake". This has nothing to do with the true veracity of the survey or report.
6. "I love the truth, you know, I'm actually a very honest guy."
"President Trump has made 10,796 false or misleading claims in 869 days." Also: "Donald Trump lies more often than you wash your hands every day."
7. "Not only – not only he was not charged, if you read it, with all the horrible false news – I mean, I was reading that my son was going to jail – this He is a good young man – that he was going to go to jail. "
It is true that the special advocate Robert Mueller has not indicted Donald Trump Jr .. It is also true that Trump Jr. agreed to meet the Russians at the Trump Tower in the summer 2016, with the promise that they had "messed up" Hillary Clinton. also It is true that Trump Jr. responded to an email promising to dirty Clinton with this now famous / infamous phrase: "If that's what you say, I love it later this summer."
8. "I've seen a lot of things over the course of my life, I do not think I've ever called the FBI in all my life, and I do not … you do not call the FBI life does not work like that. "
This is from a BuzzFeed article published in 2017: "According to a 1981 FBI note, Trump proposed to" cooperate fully "with the bureau, proposing that FBI agents work under cover in a casino that 39; he was planning to open in Atlantic City. Infiltration proposal regarding the TRUMP casino that the main agents and Trump were planning to discuss, according to the document.
Ahem.
9. "The FBI director is wrong because, frankly, it does not happen that way in life."
Trump says the FBI director, Christopher Wray, whom he has appointed to this post, is wrong to say that politicians must report requests from foreign powers to the FBI. As you may know, Trump is not a law enforcement professional. Here is what
Wray said on the subject last month in a testimony before the Congress: "If a national official or a member of a campaign is contacted by a Member State of anyone acting on behalf of a nation-state for the purpose of influencing or d & rsquo; Interfering with our election, it's something that the FBI would like to know. "
10. "No, there is nothing wrong with listening." If someone called from a country, Norway, called: "We have information about your opponent". , oh, I think I would like to hear it. "
Really beautiful things here. What Trump, who is, remember, the President of the United States, seems not to understand is that a foreign county would almost certainly have a motive to convey negative information about his opponent.
Rethink what we know of Russia's interference in the 2016 election. They sought to intervene to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton because they thought Trump would be better for him. their interests. Trump's blindness – voluntary or otherwise – that other countries are passing on this information in order to manipulate an American election to produce the desired results is frightening – especially if you consider that we will have another national election in 17 months.
11. "It's not an interference, they have information, I think I'll take it."
he is interference. There is a reason why we do not let Americans vote until the elections. Because Americans should be the ones who have the only say on the future American leaders. I mean, come on. This is a Grade 7 civics course.
12. "It's a 747. But, you know, it's a much bigger plane, a bigger span, it's a much bigger reach."
Trump showed Stephanopoulos models of the new Air Force One that he had ordered. As always, its goal is that everything be bigger, bigger, bigger.
13. "I could tell you there are a few – there are some secrets, you know what, there are some secrets, I do not think we're supposed to talk about it."
Trump speaks here about the "secrets" in Air Force One which he can not talk to Stephanopoulos. But he could literally talk about anything. He likes a good secret – whether it exists or not.
14. "Yeah, uh, my life has always been a fight."
Donald Trump's father gave him a "small" loan of one million dollars.
15. "And I like that, I guess, I do not know if I like it or not, I guess – sometimes I have fake fights, like the witch hunt in Russia.C & # 39; is a false fight. "
So he likes fighting. Or he does not have it. But there has certainly been some false fighting. What does he like? Or not?
16. "We had nothing to do with Russia."
"At least 16 Trump associates have had contact with Russians during the campaign or transition"
17. "Paul Manafort, they have Paul Manafort on taxes and a lot of other things, nothing to do with our campaign."
Uh, this: "Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, two Ukrainian oligarchs who paid Paul Manafort for years for his political work in their country, were the recipients of data from American polls that Manafort had shared with Konstantin Kilimnik during the presidential campaign. from 2016, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday ".
18. "What difference does the survey information make – it does not matter, maybe it was trying to do something for an account or something."
Well, it's a little strange that Trump's campaign director shared information about polls with Kiliminik in the hope that he would end up in front of two Ukrainian oligarchs, is not it? ? I mean, it does not happen every day.
19. "I'm going to tell you that you're talking about collusion, take a look at the collusion with the Democratic Party and Facebook, Google, and Twitter." It's called collusion, it's real collusion. "
The "real collusion", in the spirit of Trump, was between
The Clinton campaign and the Russians. This seems to have changed recently for Trump, who then alleged a broad conspiracy against conservatives on social media sites. He has not yet provided any convincing evidence to support this claim.
20. "And [Vladimir] Putin, I will say this: if he had, it was up to him to decide. He would prefer that Hillary Clinton is now president. "
According to the Mueller Report, we know that the Russians intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump and wound Clinton because they thought Trump would be better for the long-term interests of their country. . In addition, Putin categorically stated that he wanted Trump's victory after the two men's summit in Helsinki. "Yes, that's what I did," he said. "Yes, I did it because he talked about bringing the US-Russia relationship back to normal."
21. "But two or three years ago, if someone enters your office with opposite research, it's called an opposite search – with information that might be good or bad, but something good for you, bad for your opponent, you do not call the FBI. "
What is this "oppo search" you are talking about?
22. "I guarantee you that 90%, if not 100%, of the congressmen or senators there, had meetings – otherwise, they probably would not be elected – with negative information about their opponent."
Trump seems unable or unwilling to understand the difference between negative information revealed by an election campaign concerning another candidate and information from a foreign power. The first is the status quo in politics. The latter is a clear attempt to influence the outcome of the sovereign elections of another country.
23. "I do not know, I'm not involved, I'm totally uninvolved."
Trump talks about his relationship with the Department of Justice and his ongoing investigations. And yes, this statement is beyond laughable.
24. "The FBI does not have enough agents to deal with it, but you will speak frankly to the congressmen, they all do it, they've always done it." it's like that, it's what we call oppo research. "
I do not think he knows what the meaning of these words is. It seems like a good place to finish.
