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Nevilledog

(51,094 posts)
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 02:10 PM Jul 2020

Fact check: Trump again tells story about being booed at 2015 event he didn't attend

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/politics/trump-barstool-interview-robin-hood-booed/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump boasted on Wednesday about his cognitive abilities, including the memory he has previously called "one of the great memories of all time."

But there are only two possibilities about a story Trump told in an interview he taped on Thursday: either he misremembered something or he made something up.

Trump was musing to Dave Portnoy, the controversial founder of the website Barstool Sports, about how his life was better before he announced his presidential candidacy. As he did in March, Trump then spoke of an incident he claimed took place at a New York City charity gala after he became a politician in 2015.

"One thing that happened: I was going into a thing called the Robin Hood Foundation. I'll never forget it," Trump said in the interview, which Portnoy released on Friday.

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Fact check: Trump again tells story about being booed at 2015 event he didn't attend (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2020 OP
Aside from his lie, Barstool Sports at the White House? underpants Jul 2020 #1
Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Nevilledog Jul 2020 #2
It's funny. So Biden is "in his basement" while Trump is the crazy guy sitting on the porch underpants Jul 2020 #3
"...then there was the time that I single-hand-ully louis-t Jul 2020 #4

underpants

(182,789 posts)
1. Aside from his lie, Barstool Sports at the White House?
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 02:17 PM
Jul 2020

I wasn’t aware of them until yesterday but what I read tells me they had no business being invited to the White House.

underpants

(182,789 posts)
3. It's funny. So Biden is "in his basement" while Trump is the crazy guy sitting on the porch
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 02:23 PM
Jul 2020

telling his lies and wild tales.

The right loves painting Biden as this old guy stuck in his basement.
Trump has done the Wallace interview outside in the yard while both the Barstool interview and the 5 words interview with Fox’s Dr. Mashedpotaotes were both done on the same porch. The exact same setting.

When he was able to leave, they had him yelling on the lawn on front of a running helicopter.

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
4. "...then there was the time that I single-hand-ully
Sat Jul 25, 2020, 02:34 PM
Jul 2020

saved a kid from a burning building and the kid said 'sir, you are my hero, but why isn't Hillary in jail.' True story."

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