Or, doubtless, sometimes both.
This week, Trump stormed at the media for running a story about an unnamed White House official suggesting that the Trump/Kim summit would most likely not happen on June 12th, even if it did get rescheduled. The President angrily tweeted:
The Failing @nytimes quotes “a senior White House official,” who doesn’t exist, as saying “even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.” WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
“The Failing @nytimes quotes “a senior White House official,” who doesn’t exist, as saying “even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.” WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.”
Except, as it turns out, there was an actual White House official who actually did brief a dozen reporters (not just the NYT), but, as is often the case, while speaking on background and thus not to be named.
Trump either knew this and lied in his tweet, or didn’t know it and decided to attribute it to Fake News and Failing Media and all that folderol.
Something to remember next time Trump attributes anything to those causes. He’s most likely either lying or clueless.
(See also: his commencement speech at the Naval Academy)
Heard the audio of the briefing. Trump is lying.
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Lies about an aide providing an official briefing that's taped by multi sources?
he seems to have an adversarial relationship with reality