From the same article:
>> “Don’t forget … 15 years ago, it wasn’t like it is today, where you press a button and you play a video,” Trump told MSNBC’s
Morning Joe this morning when asked again if he’s standing by the claim he made about a week ago. “Fourteen, 15 years ago, they don’t even put it in files, they destroy half of the stuff. You know, if you look back 14, 15 years, that was like ancient times in terms of cinema and in terms of news and everything else. They don’t have the same stuff. Today you can press a button and you can see exactly what went on, you know, two years ago. But when you go back 14, 15 years, that’s like ancient technology, Joe,” he told Joe Scarborough. <<
Bullshit.
I work in that industry and digital technology was already used even in my small-scale operations, let alone national and international broadcast operations. Moreover they don't "destroy half the stuff" -- or any of the stuff -- when it's about a major historical event. What we
used to destroy, when recording was done on physical media (tape) would be the afternoon cooking show from channel 5. Not important stuff.
Rump's a liar, and can't admit it.
Later, same article:
>> A few days later, Trump counsel Michael Cohen told CNN it is irrelevant how many Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the collapse of the World Trade Center, whether “it’s thousands and thousands or a thousand people or even just one person.” <<
-- Suddenly, we're asked to believe, what was a major basis of -- whatever the point was supposed to be, with a cast of "thousands and thousands" now, when it's called out for the bullshit it is, becomes.... "irrelevant".
In a way though, he's actually right --- it IS irrelevant to the murmuring minions who hear only the emotional music and can't be bothered to read the lyrics.