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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 04:41 PM Aug 2017

White House: Trump did not lie about phone call from Boy Scouts

Source: The Hill


BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 08/02/17 04:15 PM EDT


The White House on Wednesday pushed back on accusations from reporters that President Trump lied about recent phone calls he said he received from the Mexican president and the leader of the Boy Scouts.

Trump said recently that he received a phone call from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto praising his policies cracking down on illegal immigration into the U.S. The president also said the leader of the Boy Scouts of America called him to say he gave “the greatest speech” the organization ever heard at its national gathering last week. But both leaders have denied calling the president to praise him.

“Why did the president say that he received a phone call from the leader of the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico when he did not?” a reporter asked press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “Did he lie?”


Sanders said that Trump misspoke on both counts — that he did not receive phone calls but rather had personal conversations with the leaders.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345013-white-house-trump-did-not-lie-about-phone-call-from-boy-scouts

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White House: Trump did not lie about phone call from Boy Scouts (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2017 OP
Oh, he didn't LIE, he just didn't tell the truth! Maeve Aug 2017 #1
I am sure the 'personal conversation' stories are also lies. Kingofalldems Aug 2017 #2
Other than the phone how would he have had "personal conversations"? AJT Aug 2017 #6
They both flew in secretly to tell Trump how great he was. Kingofalldems Aug 2017 #8
It was John Barron n/t SonofDonald Aug 2017 #16
Smoke signals. tammywammy Aug 2017 #19
Two tin cans and a really long string.... Grammy23 Aug 2017 #31
preeecisely. Corvo Bianco Aug 2017 #24
OK, what staffer is impersonating people to gush to Donny about how wonderful he is??? tanyev Aug 2017 #3
He was probably the caller. Auntie Bush Aug 2017 #9
Oooo Corvo Bianco Aug 2017 #25
Ok, admit it. You know that the books that will be written Grammy23 Aug 2017 #32
White House in turmoil by an erratic leader! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2017 #4
Oh, puhlease. hamsterjill Aug 2017 #5
"It's not a lie when dear leader says it" C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #7
Were these telepathic conversations? Did they run into each other at the Jiffy Lube? Was Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2017 #10
Did he lie Huckafuck?? Did the sun rise in the east this morning? Bengus81 Aug 2017 #11
Hell will freeze when Trump tells the truth ......... the temperature keeps rising Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #12
As a general rule, anything that follows "White House says" can safely be assumed to be a lie. n/t Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #13
Scout leader might have called technotwit Aug 2017 #14
Nice... ADX Aug 2017 #17
A lie is a lie is a lie Achilleaze Aug 2017 #30
This so-called administration is nothing more than liars lying for other lying liars... ADX Aug 2017 #15
You are too suspicious syringis Aug 2017 #18
omg what if they were punk phone calls both times? samnsara Aug 2017 #20
Maybe prank emails torius Aug 2017 #21
Trump is still lying Gothmog Aug 2017 #22
But only from Day One. Grammy23 Aug 2017 #34
Easy to prove angrychair Aug 2017 #23
She claimed it was at the G20... still makes the phoncall claims LIES. bettyellen Aug 2017 #27
Well angrychair Aug 2017 #38
Wow they lie so glibly. cstanleytech Aug 2017 #26
It all depends on what your definition of "lie" is Achilleaze Aug 2017 #28
Huckabee admitted there was no phone call. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #29
Same with the Boy Scouts. Grammy23 Aug 2017 #35
He did not lie. He just gave alternative facts. Doreen Aug 2017 #33
OK, he had 'conversations' but no phone calls (yeah, right) Scalded Nun Aug 2017 #36
"Sanders said that Trump misspoke on both counts" truthisfreedom Aug 2017 #37
Yeah, a lot of "misspeaking" going on. nt :) JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2017 #43
Caught in the lie of a phone call there'd be a record of, with a named person muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #39
He was just joking world wide wally Aug 2017 #40
Locker room talk. Means nothing. Marcuse Aug 2017 #41
Mens rea displacedtexan Aug 2017 #42
Imaginary Phone Calls ProfessorGAC Aug 2017 #44

AJT

(5,240 posts)
6. Other than the phone how would he have had "personal conversations"?
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 04:47 PM
Aug 2017

Vulcan mind meld? A quick flight to Mexico? Him playing both himself and the other person?

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
24. preeecisely.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:32 PM
Aug 2017

He thinks he's having conversations because the screams pouring out of his delicate ego have taken on fun new voices--namely those of some boy scouts dude and a Mexican president.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
32. Ok, admit it. You know that the books that will be written
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:59 PM
Aug 2017

About the Orange Buffoon are practically gonna write themselves. Somebody is gonna make a boatload of money spilling the beans. Lotta late night reading in our future.

hamsterjill

(15,222 posts)
5. Oh, puhlease.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 04:46 PM
Aug 2017

This woman, Huckabee Sanders, just stood in front of a room full of reporters today and promised that she would not lie.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
10. Were these telepathic conversations? Did they run into each other at the Jiffy Lube? Was
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 04:52 PM
Aug 2017

it by email?.... yeah, I'm pretty sure it is yet another childish unnecessary lie.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
11. Did he lie Huckafuck?? Did the sun rise in the east this morning?
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 04:52 PM
Aug 2017

Pretty soon it will follow the same WH pattern when they say "Hey...we were just kidding and joking around".

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
30. A lie is a lie is a lie
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:53 PM
Aug 2017

It's clear that the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino, does not respect the American people enough to speak the truth when he speaks to them. That's why decent, honest Americans realize that the republican party and its russian colluders are not to be trusted. They are unworthy.

syringis

(5,101 posts)
18. You are too suspicious
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:01 PM
Aug 2017


He just mixed a bit ventriloquism with some schizophrenic behavior and he really have had a call...

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
23. Easy to prove
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:26 PM
Aug 2017

He said that the president of Mexico told him that in person. Has the president of Mexico visited the US or Trump there in the last several days?

If not how could it have been in person?

angrychair

(8,702 posts)
38. Well
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:12 PM
Aug 2017

The BSA interaction wasn't at the G20!

I call BS, that was awhile ago. Why would he not have mentioned that kind of comment a lot sooner and if that were true than there would be documentation of that interaction with State.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
28. It all depends on what your definition of "lie" is
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:50 PM
Aug 2017

If you are going by republican "standards" any old manufactured crap will pass as gospel. Decent people, on the other hand, know that a lie is a falsehood, and that the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief & his cabal of complicit republican comrades spew them daily.

Hieronymus

(6,039 posts)
29. Huckabee admitted there was no phone call.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 05:52 PM
Aug 2017

She said it was in person .. convenient since it can't be proved.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
35. Same with the Boy Scouts.
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 06:04 PM
Aug 2017

The leaders all rushed to greet him afterward to shake his hand and stroke his ego.

Sure they did. Go to the video tape. Exactly when did this happen?? Come on, tRump. Show us when they were all gathered around you, licking your.....uhm, boots.

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)
36. OK, he had 'conversations' but no phone calls (yeah, right)
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 06:09 PM
Aug 2017

But the bigger question is...Does he have the tapes?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
39. Caught in the lie of a phone call there'd be a record of, with a named person
Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:20 PM
Aug 2017

and a specific claim of being told it was the greatest speech the organization ever heard, Trump has fallen back on the unverifiable 'personal conversation' with unnamed and thus practically uncheckable "multiple members of Boy Scout leadership" with vague talk of "quite powerful compliments". If someone starts ringing around all of them, it may turn out one of them said something blandly complimentary out of a sense of respect for the office, or just to get the asshole to go away. Or there might be an asshole among them too.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
42. Mens rea
Thu Aug 3, 2017, 08:52 AM
Aug 2017

Who, at this point, could possibly doubt Trump's guilty mind?

We'd have to see both phone records and video witness statements from Mexico and the Boy Scouts before we even considered Trump to be telling some form of the truth.

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