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
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,460 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Vulcan mind meld? A quick flight to Mexico? Him playing both himself and the other person?
Kingofalldems
(38,460 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)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.
tanyev
(42,573 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)I'd put it past none of them.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)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.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)This woman, Huckabee Sanders, just stood in front of a room full of reporters today and promised that she would not lie.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)it by email?.... yeah, I'm pretty sure it is yet another childish unnecessary lie.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Pretty soon it will follow the same WH pattern when they say "Hey...we were just kidding and joking around".
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)technotwit
(71 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)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.
ADX
(1,622 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)He just mixed a bit ventriloquism with some schizophrenic behavior and he really have had a call...
samnsara
(17,623 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)Since the WH seems to fall for those.
Gothmog
(145,344 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)angrychair
(8,702 posts)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?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)angrychair
(8,702 posts)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.
cstanleytech
(26,299 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)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)She said it was in person .. convenient since it can't be proved.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)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.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)But the bigger question is...Does he have the tapes?
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)It's not a lie when 45 tells a lie. It's misspeaking.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,352 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)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.
world wide wally
(21,745 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)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.
ProfessorGAC
(65,078 posts)No lie, just imaginary calls from the voices. Time for the 25th.