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riversedge

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Thu Aug 3, 2017, 01:08 PM Aug 2017

Donald Trump just keeps lying [View all]

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Source: CNN




Updated 7:41 AM ET, Thu August 3, 2017


Washington (CNN).......................


The first came when he claimed, at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, that the President of Mexico had called him recently. Said Trump: "Even the President of Mexico called me. Their southern border, they said very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get to our border, which is the ultimate compliment."

The second came last week in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the transcript of which was published Tuesday night. In the interview, Trump boasted: "I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful."

Neither of those phone calls actually happened, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted in her daily press briefing Wednesday.
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Despite those admissions, Sanders blanched at the idea Trump had purposely misled. "I wouldn't say it was a lie," she said. "That's a pretty bold accusation. The conversations took place, they just simply didn't take place over a phone call."....................................................

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/politics/donald-trump-mexico-boy-scouts-lies/index.html



Hey HSanders--Donald said he got 'calls" and he did not. He lied and YOU lied. Shame!





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