TFG wants people to ignore reality and the tapes and believe his lies
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-audio-tape-classified-documents-lie-rcna91546
It’s long been established that former President Donald Trump lies whenever he believes he can get away with it. On issues big or small, he’s been found to stretch the truth, skirt the question or outright fabricate events, as he has after the FBI retrieved a slew of classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate last year. It’s basically one of his defining traits at this point. And yet, somehow, seeing how shameless he can be in the face of overwhelming evidence can still be disorienting.
It’s clearly Trump’s voice on an audio recording that’s become a key piece of evidence in the federal case against him. On the tape, which NBC News obtained Tuesday, he can be heard telling attendees of a 2021 meeting at his Bedminster residence that he’s showing them a document that contains “secret information.” And after we hear the shuffling of papers, he announces that the document he is presenting is from the Defense Department and that information is “highly confidential.”.....
When Semafor and ABC News asked about those comments, Trump gave what may be his most boldfaced lie to date:
Asked about his use of the word “plans” during a Fox News interview earlier Tuesday to describe some items he may have highlighted in the 2021 meeting, Trump insisted he was referring to “building plans” and plans for golf courses strewn about his desk.
“Did I use the word plans?” he said. “What I’m referring to is magazines, newspapers, plans of buildings. I had plans of buildings. You know, building plans? I had plans of a golf course.”
DONALD TRUMP TO ABC NEWS AND SEMAFOR
That’s right. He is claiming that when speaking about what was reportedly, according to NBC News, a document detailing a military plan to strike Iran, he was really just telling the meeting attendees about a new golf course he was planning. One whose plans, apparently, were given to him by the Defense Department and “totally wins the case” in his grudge against former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley......
This caution means it’s unlikely that this will be the tale that Trump’s lawyers try to tell during his pending trial. Not with the threat of their client committing perjury and when there will be witnesses to disagree with him. Even Trump knows better than to try to convince a judge and jury that they should trust him over their own ears
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