“Trump either committed perjury or conned his fans by lying in their faces. there is no third option.”
That’s a bombshell, and not the first that Kurt Eichenwald has unloaded during this insane 2016 presidential campaign.
“Trump told two different stories — one to GOP, one under oath — to make sure no one knew he failed,” Eichenwald adds.
This time, it is different. Trump can’t skip past his perfidy here. There are two records—one, a previously undisclosed deposition of the Republican nominee testifying under oath, and the second a transcript/video of a Republican presidential debate. In them, Trump tells contradictory versions of the same story with the clashing accounts tailored to provide what he wanted people to believe when he was speaking.
This fib matters far more than whether Trump was honest about why he abandoned his birther movement or the corollary fib that Hillary Clinton started the racist story that President Obama was born in Kenya. In the lie we are examining here, Trump either committed a felony or proved himself willing to deceive his followers whenever it suits him.
Trump told the public version of this story last year, during the second Republican presidential debate.
DONALD TRUMP EITHER LIED TO THE REPUBLICANS OR BROKE THE LAW (EXCLUSIVE) [newsweek.com, via dataandpolitics]