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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump insists that Manafort and Assange only discussed how bad collusion is.
WASHINGTONDownplaying reports that his former campaign chairman may have collaborated with the controversial Wikileaks founder in 2016, President Trump said Tuesday that Paul Manafort and Julian Assange did indeed meet on occasion to discuss how collusion was a bad thing they would never, ever do.
Sure, they met a few times, but the only thing they ever talked about was how much they hate collusion and anyone who participates in collusion, the president told reporters, saying both Manafort and Assange had assured him their meetings in Londons Ecuadorean embassy had been called for the sole purpose of outlining all the different ways people can engage in collusion and all the reasons why it was illegal and immoral to do so.
I firmly believe this was nothing more than two good, honest men clarifying to each other how disgraceful it would be to coordinate their efforts to tamper with an election, because that sort of behavior is clearly wrong. They may also have spoken of how completely disgusted they would be if someone were to obtain the emails of an opponents political campaign and then publish them. But thats it. The conversations stopped there.
Trump added that several other members of his campaign staff may have held meetings to iron out the details of their own firm anti-collusion stances, including his son Donald Trump Jr.
https://politics.theonion.com/trump-insists-manafort-assange-only-discussed-how-bad-1830693199/amp?__twitter_impression=true
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)that's probably not too far from what Trump will be claiming within the next week after the story has changed 3-4-5 changes along the way.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,164 posts)Response to edbermac (Original post)
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Squinch
(50,934 posts)RockRaven
(14,951 posts)sigh....
TheBlackAdder
(28,181 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)blugbox
(951 posts)I was reading the first part of the third paragraph again in disbelief when I finally stopped and looked at the link haha!!
Unfortunately these stories are not unbelievable anymore...
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)It's getting almost impossible to distinguish between parody and Trump's "reality."