Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni isn't the only lawmaker to have accused President Donald Trump of lying about them.
The president has a years-long history of telling false or highly dubious tales about people having supposedly begged him for things.”
“Trump is particularly fond of making such claims when he is talking about someone who was once supportive of him but went on to criticize him or his policies, as the conservative Meloni did this year about the president’s war with Iran and tariff threats,”
Dale noted
Trump claimed Cheri Jacobus, a Republican operative who
said she left the GOP because of his 2016 nomination, had “Begged” him for a job. While Trump said he “Turned her down twice,” Jacobus later shared
evidence that his staff had instead reached out to her.
Dale also cited the case of Brent Bozell, a conservative activist whom
Trump claimed in 2016 came to his office “begging for money like a dog.” Bozell, now a Trump-appointed U.S. ambassador to South Africa, decried this in his 2019 book, “Unmasked: Big Media’s War Against Trump.”
“Maybe because it wasn’t true?”
Bozell wrote. “I had not gone to him for money; he’d invited me for lunch to discuss his potential campaign. I hadn’t groveled. I hadn’t even asked for money. He’d offered it. That tweet was just another day in the office for Trump.
Trump lies constantly and wins. What is wrong with Trump supporters?