Remember--the recording that started this story was Trump talking to his donors. He was entertaining them.

Caroline O. @RVAwonk

It appears that Trump invented the story about inventing a story during a meeting with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

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Alexander Panetta
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7h7 hours ago

Here's another twist in the Trudeau-Trump story... It turns out, the meeting details may have been... wait for it.... made up. The Canadians are unsure what meeting Trump's referring to. One said the conversation might have been by phone. Apparently, 1/2
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Alexander Panetta
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2/ they have these sorts of chats about the deficit/surplus once in a while. But this story - "Justin comes in," etc, etc, we send our officials out of the room, they come back in, I was right on trade... Apparently it's a blend of different chats. And one person I heard from
4:13 PM - 15 Mar 2018

Alexander Panetta
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7h7 hours ago

3/ said this anecdote from Trump most resembles a chat they may have had by phone.
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Alexander Panetta
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7h7 hours ago

4/ So... this Trump anecdote about making up a fact on an allegedly made up trade metric might have been slightly... made up. Behold, a matryoshka doll of tall-tales
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Alexander Panetta
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5h5 hours ago

5/ Okay - have tried getting Canadians to chat about what happened in Trudeau/Trump meeting. No takers. They never get into details about POTUS/PM. But I can report with certainty that there is some confusion in Ottawa about when/where this encounter is supposed to have happened
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Alexander Panetta
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5h5 hours ago

6/ Best I can glean is the story is a composite sketch of chats by phone, in person, and internally within the White House. But not clear when there was ever a meeting where there was a debate, aides were sent out to find trade facts, and they came back in to prove POTUS right
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Alexander Panetta
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4h4 hours ago

7/ It certainly sounds from the way Trump tells it that this was supposed to have all gone down in one face-to-face meeting. From the Washington Post transcript: "Trudeau came to see me... (He) comes in... I said you're wrong, Justin..."
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Alexander Panetta
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4h4 hours ago

8/ "He said, 'Nope, we have no trade deficit.' I said, 'Well, in that case, I feel differently, I said, but I don’t believe it.' I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said, 'Check.'" (And the aides come back to the room, POTUS was right, 🇺🇸 has deficit)
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pacmagic61 ⛾patience, padawan
‏ @Frthewoodpile
6h6 hours ago

Replying to @Alex_Panetta

Shit! My granny does that. She's 94 and isn't #POTUS so it's pretty ok.