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Tue Feb 26, 2019, 01:48 PM Feb 2019

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

February 26, 2019 at 8:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/26/quote-of-the-day-2187/

"SNIP....

“I’ve had so many guys who did business with him in real estate say you know he’d have a $15 million dollar profit from a real estate deal which he would call $150 million and then he would call everybody and beg them not to contradict the press because he was going to tell them it was 150 million not 15 million. That’s how he sees negotiations. So if he can put lipstick on a pig and he can say OK this is what we’re going to do with North Korea. And he keeps saying it over and over again and Fox News says it over and over again and other outlets say it over and over again.  And the so-called mainstream media does their both sides ism. Well he said this but then somebody else says that he wins the news he wins the news cycle.”

— Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tina Brown, on President Trump’s negotiating style.

....SNIP"

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