{"id":134026,"date":"2017-08-02T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/the-white-house-admits-trump-lied-says-lie-is-a-harsh-term.html"},"modified":"2017-08-02T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T23:17:10","slug":"the-white-house-admits-trump-lied-says-lie-is-a-harsh-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/the-white-house-admits-trump-lied-says-lie-is-a-harsh-term.html","title":{"rendered":"The White House admits Trump lied, says "lie" is a harsh term"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, Donald Trump didn't get a personal phone call from the head of the Boy Scouts thanking him for a powerful speech he'd made at the Jamboree, as he claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.<\/i> The White House spokesperson admitted that there was no phone call (after the BSA denied it), but that Trump was referring to BSA leaders who had come up after the meeting and talked with him, praising the speech.<\/p>\n

Oh, and, no, Donald Trump didn't get a personal phone call from the President of Mexico, thanking him for his border policy, as he also claimed. Instead, the White House spokesperson explained that Trump was referring to an offline chat he had with the Mexican President at the G-20 summit.<\/p>\n

But don't call it a lie.<\/p>\n

❝ “I wouldn’t say it was a lie. That’s a pretty bold accusation,” Sanders told reporters. “The conversations took place, they just simply didn’t take place over a phone call … he had them in person.”<\/i> ❞<\/p>\n

So … was Trump just confused in his memory about the conversations, and translated the meetings and ad hoc comments into phone calls he'd received? That wouldn't be a lie, just … kind of troubling.<\/p>\n

Or did Trump just decide that getting a personal phone call sounded a lot better and more impressive than in-passing conversations, and told the story of those comments that way? In which case … well, yeah, that is, in fact, a couple of lies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhite House admits no phone calls from Boy Scouts or Mexican president<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Boy Scouts denied that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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