Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Trump flees media after hard question
Donald Trump has once again cut a media conference short, turning and walking away from the lectern after being called out for a recurring fib.
www.news.com.au
Mr Trump has been repeating his claim about Veterans Choice for years – according to CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, who monitors such things, he’s made it more than 150 times.
His most extensive version of the lie was in August of last year, when he said he’d come up with the idea for the program during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“I said, you know, ‘I have a great idea. I’ve been thinking about it a lot’. This was during the campaign,” Mr Trump said.
“And I came back to my people, I had experts, and I said, ‘I have a great idea. These lines for the veterans are too long. It takes them three, four weeks sometimes to see a doctor. I have a great idea — let’s let them go outside, go to a private doctor. We’ll pay the bill, they’ll be all fixed up all perfect, and they can do it immediately and we’ll pay the bill’.
“And I thought, I said, ‘Man am I smart. I am the smartest guy, to think of that’. So I went before this panel of experts that were with me working on things, and I said, ‘How do you like that idea?’ And they said, ‘Sir, we’ve known about it for about 40 years, but we’ve never been able’.
“But here’s the thing. We got it done. Nobody else could get it done. Nobody else.”
Trying to take credit for something Obama did. Doesnt the fat pig have any ideas of his own ? Perhaps he actually believes he did it and this is another sign of his cracking up ?
