So if/when Trump does end up under oath, don't expect the asshole to respect the oath, or the truth.
?I try and be truthful,? Trump said. ?I?m no different from a politician running for office. You always want to put the best foot forward.?
"Thirty times, they caught him.
Trump had misstated sales at his condo buildings. Inflated the price of membership at one of his golf clubs. Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees."
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BUSTED: Trump told 30 lies in two days during his deposition about his ?billionaire? claims |
Washington Post
For two straight days, they asked Trump question after question that touched on the same theme: Trump?s honesty.
The lawyers confronted the mogul with his past statements ? and with his company?s internal documents, which often showed those statements had been incorrect or invented. The lawyers were relentless. Trump, the bigger-than-life mogul, was vulnerable ? cornered, out-prepared and under oath.
Thirty times, they caught him.
Trump had misstated sales at his condo buildings. Inflated the price of membership at one of his golf clubs. Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees.
That deposition ? 170 transcribed pages ? offers extraordinary insights into Trump?s relationship with the truth. Trump?s falsehoods were unstrategic ? needless, highly specific, easy to disprove. When caught, Trump sometimes blamed others for the error or explained that the untrue thing really was true, in his mind, because he saw the situation more positively than others did.
?Have you ever lied in public statements about your properties?? the lawyer asked.
?I try and be truthful,? Trump said. ?I?m no different from a politician running for office. You always want to put the best foot forward.?
In his presidential campaign, Trump has sought to make his truth-telling a selling point. He nicknamed his main Republican opponent ?Lyin? Ted? Cruz. He called his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, ?A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!? in a recent Twitter message. ?I will present the facts plainly and honestly,? he said in the opening of his speech at the Republican National Convention. ?We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.?
Trump has had a habit of telling demonstrable untruths during his presidential campaign. The Washington Post?s Fact Checker has awarded him four Pinocchios ? the maximum a statement can receive ? 39 times since he announced his bid last summer. In many cases, his statements echo those in the 2007 deposition: They are specific, checkable ? and wrong.
Trump said he opposed the Iraq War at the start. He didn?t. He said he?d never mocked a disabled New York Times reporter. He had. Trump also said the National Football League had sent him a letter, objecting to a presidential debate that was scheduled for the same time as a football game. It hadn?t.
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