The former president was uncharacteristically honest with his response to Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
Former President Donald Trump had a surprisingly candid response when challenged over the tens of thousands of lies he told during his time in office, according to the author of a new tell-all book.
“We asked him why, as president, he thought it was OK for him to continually tell the American people things that were not true, to lie again and again and again,” Washington Post journalist Philip Rucker recalled of interviewing Trump on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“And he said to us, ‘You know, there’s a beautiful word, and it’s called disinformation,’” Rucker said. Continue reading.