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Tanuki

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5. He publicly said she was "nasty" in the past.
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 11:06 AM
Mar 2021
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/meghan-markle-nasty-trump.amp.html

..."The fracas began with an interview with the British tabloid The Sun last weekend, when Mr. Trump was recorded saying that he was not aware that the duchess had made “nasty” comments about him during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“What can I say?” Mr. Trump said. “I didn’t know that she was nasty.”

It was not the way previous American presidents have let the British know they were coming. The reaction to a sitting president commenting on the perceived nastiness of a member of Queen Elizabeth’s family — who put on a state dinner at Buckingham Palace, to impress and placate him — was reliably parsed along tribal lines.

Trump supporters agreed with the president, who initially said that he had not made such a comment at all. The Trump campaign’s “war room” Twitter account took CNN to task for “falsely claiming” that Mr. Trump had called Ms. Markle nasty — and then posted audio that captured the president saying that Ms. Markle had, in fact, been nasty."....(more)



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