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10 Falsehoods From Trump’s Interview With The Times

The following article by Linda Qiu was posted on the New York Times website December 29, 2017:

President Trump speaks Dec. 29, 2017, as he meets with members of the U.S. Coast Guard, whom he invited to play golf, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)

WASHINGTON — President Trump, in an impromptu interview on Thursday with The New York Times, rattled off at least 10 false or misleading claims about the Russia investigation, wars abroad, health care, immigration and trade. Here’s an assessment.

He inaccurately said the claims against Paul Manafort occurred “many years ago before I ever heard of him.”

The two men reportedly met in 2011. Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016, was promoted to campaign chairman and chief strategist that May and was ousted that August. Continue reading “10 Falsehoods From Trump’s Interview With The Times”

11 curious quotes from Trump’s New York Times interview

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website December 29, 2017:

President Trump speaks Dec. 29, 2017, as he meets with members of the U.S. Coast Guard, whom he invited to play golf, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Evan Vucci/AP)

President Trump sat down with the New York Times’s Michael S. Schmidt on Thursday for a wide-ranging half-hour interview. And while he didn’t make any really big news, there were plenty of worthwhile nuggets, bold claims and factual inaccuracies.

Below are 11 of them, with a little analysis of each (and click here for the full excerpts from the Times): Continue reading “11 curious quotes from Trump’s New York Times interview”