Trump aides "conceded the China phone calls Trump described didn't happen they way he said they did"

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2. Like the poor student he's always been

Trump is scrambling to make up a semester's worth of work just ahead of Finals Week. He's whining to anyone who will listen about how unfair everything is, he didn't reckon on the esoteric notion of the passage of time, and everyone has to make an allowance for him because he hasn't done anything.

Note to the media: You are under no obligation to repeat Trump's lies, especially when you know good and well he's lying. You can ask him questions, questions like, "Oh, you've had lovely phone calls with the Chinese, that's nice. Who did you talk to?" It doesn't take some kind of Super Reporter Super Power to figure this out.