President Trump
Donald John TrumpNew Bob Woodward book will contain details of 25 personal letters between Trump and Kim Jong Un On The Money: Pelosi, Mnuchin talk, but make no progress on ending stalemate | Trump seizes ‘third track’ of policy with payroll tax break | Trump uses racist tropes to repeat honest housing to ‘suburban housewife’. Biden commemorates anniversary of Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: ‘We are in a battle for the soul of our nation’ MORE on Thursday ignored a question during a White House briefing when a reporter asked if he regretted all the lies he had committed in his office.
“Do you regret all those lies you have done to the American people?” HuffPost reporter SV Dáte asked.
“All that?” Trump asked.
“All lies. All dishonesty,” Dáte said.
“That who did?” Trump asked.
“You did,” Dáte replied.
The president paused for a moment, then called on another reporter without addressing the question.
Trump has made false and misleading statements throughout his presidency, and did so again Thursday in the first half of his briefing when he made exaggerated or inaccurate claims about presumptive Democratic presidential nominees. Joe Biden
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The Washington Post reported in mid-July that Trump had made 20,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. The president has made nearly 1,000 such claims over the coronavirus pandemic in recent months, the Post found.
“For five years I wanted to ask him that,” Dáte after the briefing tweeted.
Q: “Do you really regret it – all the lies you have done to the American people?”
Trump: “Anything?”
Q: “All lies – all dishonesty.”
Trump: “Who did that?”
Q: “You did.”
Trump to next reporter: “Yes go ahead, please.” pic.twitter.com/iNpCkmCkE7
– The Hill (@thehill) August 13, 2020
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