Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago [View all]
Fact check: Trump denies saying something he said on camera five days ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/politics/fact-check-trump-september-strike-video
Trump on Monday falsely denied making a comment he had made on camera just five days prior. Then he launched a personal attack against the reporter who had accurately repeated his previous remark.
Trump has a long history of falsely denying he ever said things he had said in public.
The subject of his latest false denial was the video footage of the September 2 US military strikes against a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean. The military conducted a follow-up strike to kill the people who had survived the first strike.
The Trump administration publicly released the video of the initial strike but not the video of the follow-up strike, which has been shown to members of Congress behind closed doors. On December 3, Trump said he has no problem releasing this video to the American people.
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