Donald Trump rewrites history about his 'Russia, if you're listening' comment about Clinton's emails

[WhiskeyWulf]

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/02/donald-trump/donald-trump-rewrites-history-about-his-russia-if-/

In his Conservative Political Action Conference speech, Trump accused the media of being "dishonest" in its coverage of him inviting Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails in a July 2016 press conference.

"Remember this thing, ‘Russia, if you're listening’?’ Remember, it was a big thing, in front of 25,000 people. ‘Russia if you're…’ It was all said in a joke," Trump said Feb. 29. "They cut it off right at the end so that you don't then see the laughter, the joke. And they said, ‘He asked. He asked for help.’ Right?"

Trump continued:

"Russia, if you're listening… A very famous — they cut that thing so quick at the end because they didn't want to hear the laughter in the place and me laughing. It was just ‘boom.’ These are really dishonest people."

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Trump delivered his comment (around minute 13:30 on the C-SPAN video) with a straight face. We didn’t hear any laughter after what he said; it was news.

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1. ah, that notorious excuse of the right-wing haters. i was only joking.

all those criminal things, all those sexist things, all those racist things, all those xenophobic things,...

c'mon, just a joke, get a sense of humor!



they're really good at the kind of jokes that people never laugh at.

[Celerity]

2. one of these days he will reveal it all