Like OP posted: Democrats paraphrased a tape the Lying Republicans refused to release, releasing instead a paraphrase and parody: Easily able to be paraphrased and parodied.
Notice from the Helsinki news conference, From Trump and Putin.
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"Did you want President Trump to win the election
and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?"
"PUTIN: Yes, I wanted him to win. Because he talked about bringing the U.S. Russia relationship back to normal."
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Is the one word, "Yes," some nature of admission of guilty as questioned? A deliberate lie in most languages requires a context and backdrop against which veracity can be measured. (Many would contend that evading the answer to the question in its entirety is a lie!)
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he Democrats are not accused of withholding the original transcript, (THE LIE), or failing to acknowledge the paraphrase released--then further paraphrased.
Notice below: There can be no genuine contention that the paraphrase is a lie--since the real transcript was never released.
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"It looks like you have responded to the wrong thread. This thread is about a Democrat purposely misquoting Trump in order to dishonestly make it look like Trump said something he didnt say, but that lefties REALLY, want him to have said."
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"Wrapping oneself in the Flag." is better said to be about both Trump and NIxon.
wrap (oneself) in the flag
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Clone-making not really a lie!)