{"id":37560,"date":"2018-04-11T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37560"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T02:34:15","slug":"new-york-times-shatters-trumps-denial-that-he-took-150g-from-a-ukrainian-oligarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37560","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Shatters Trump’s Denial that He Took 150G From a Ukrainian Oligarch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Donald Trump. He continues to be a victim of of his own ignorance and acutely deficient comprehension skills. As a result he misunderstands even the simplest subjects and then lashes out in mindless tantrums that only make him look even more foolish. It’s a downward spiral of psychotic collapse that repeats itself on a nearly daily basis. And despite all the evidence to the contrary, Trump still thinks he’s a “stable genius.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Wednesday Trump was typically miffed at the “fake”<\/em> news he perceived being published by the “failing”<\/em> New York Times. Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman of the Times posted a well researched article about Trump receiving $150,000<\/a><\/strong> from a Ukrainian oligarch as payment for a twenty minute video address in September of 2015. The money was “donated”<\/em> to Trump’s foundation which has a notably poor record of doing any charitable work. In fact, it has been found to have unlawfully funneled money to Trump via phony transactions. In one case the foundation bought a portrait of Trump that it hung at his golf resort. On another occasion foundation funds were used to pay a legal settlement<\/a><\/strong> that was owed by Trump personally.<\/p>\n

Per usual, Trump expressed his outrage at the Times via Twitter:<\/p>\n

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The Failing New York Times wrote another phony story. It was political pundit Doug Schoen, not a Ukrainian businessman, who asked me to do a short speech by phone (Skype), hosted by Doug, in Ukraine. I was very positive about Ukraine-another negative to the Fake Russia C story!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n