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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChina's "phone call to Trump" did...not...HAPPEN, per China's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
Melissa Cheok
@mkcheok
JUST IN: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang says has no info on phone calls to U.S. cited by Trump, adding later I can tell you clearly that I havent heard of such a thing
* Says China will protect itself on trade if U.S. persists with current approach
3:41 AM · Aug 26, 2019·Twitter Web App
@mkcheok
JUST IN: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang says has no info on phone calls to U.S. cited by Trump, adding later I can tell you clearly that I havent heard of such a thing
* Says China will protect itself on trade if U.S. persists with current approach
3:41 AM · Aug 26, 2019·Twitter Web App
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China's "phone call to Trump" did...not...HAPPEN, per China's Foreign Ministry spokesman. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2019
OP
And now 45 million Americans not only believe the call took place but the Chinese are
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2019
#1
Once again, the American people get more reliable information from China than the President
gratuitous
Aug 2019
#2
"Don't worry: the President is just hallucinating again! All the politicians do that!"
struggle4progress
Aug 2019
#5
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)1. And now 45 million Americans not only believe the call took place but the Chinese are
lying about that.
45 million Americans want tremendous harm to come to all of us.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Once again, the American people get more reliable information from China than the President
Who knew America wasn't being great because the president wasn't such a lying sack of shit? Well, we've fixed that now, so America is, like, totes great again!
Dunnjen
(65 posts)3. The routine is
Step 1try and figure out how trump isn't lieing.
Step 2 maybe it was a prank radio dj
Step 3 now that some of you think, that's a possibility...
Step 4 move on to next ridiculous effluent from the erupting lie-Cano
Doodley
(8,976 posts)4. The phone call story was BS to make Trump look good.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)5. "Don't worry: the President is just hallucinating again! All the politicians do that!"
GusBob
(7,286 posts)6. Interesting thought
Our adversaries can use Trumps statements to their advantage because he lies so much
Even *if* he tells the truth they can deny it ever happened
Pretty neat way for them to game things