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Seriously - if Mueller interviews Trump under oath - can one really believe anything he says?
rzemanfl
(31,462 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Any other circumstances, drumpf is incapable of speaking truthfully. He has proved it repeatedly.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(131,216 posts)that he can lie and get away with it. His arrogance will trip him up.
Irish_Dem
(82,312 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I so fucking hate him. Have I said that enough?
spanone
(142,052 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)He has a habit of telling lies that are easily proven false.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)He breathes lies.
world wide wally
(21,836 posts)Trump is incapable of telling the truth if it is not flattering to him.
NotASurfer
(2,371 posts)Or a claim he lacks mental capacity to understand right and wrong. Or dementia. Win is not spending the rest of my short Orange life in prison and responding like a raving lunatic to questions under oath would be one step closer
greymattermom
(5,808 posts)can you be charged with perjury? One of the things has to be false, right?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I don't think he understands the concept of "truth." It's all relative to him. Literally; relative as it relates to him.
Whiskeytide
(4,661 posts)... intended to get the truth directly from the witness. It is intended to lock in the "story" of the witness so you can impeach it with other evidence. Trump doesn't understand this. But his lawyers - fruitcakes though they may be - do. They will not let him sit for one.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,900 posts)So OBVIOUSLY he's going to lie. But that's not the point of having him under oath. Think about it. What got Bill Clinton impeached? It wasn't the blow job. It was............say it with me now..........LYING about it UNDER OATH. This is going to be one of the main weapons Mueller is going to use to get Trump. Yet another count in his indictment.
It will, however, be fun to watch Republicans twist themselves all up and NOW claim that lying under oath isn't a big deal.
pnwmom
(110,324 posts)imanamerican63
(16,403 posts)
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