{"id":39949,"date":"2018-12-09T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39949"},"modified":"2018-12-10T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:22:17","slug":"trump-says-comey-set-record-for-lies-at-245-so-hes-only-6000-short-of-trumps-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39949","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Comey Set Record for Lies at 245, So He&#8217;s Only 6,000 Short of Trump&#8217;s Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest display of Donald Trump&#8217;s frantic fear and desperation appeared Sunday morning on Twitter (as usual). He is getting more unhinged with every passing day. Especially when those days include filings from special counsel Robert Mueller and the New York Attorney&#8217;s office sentencing Trump&#8217;s former close associates. The walls closing in on the President have driven him to make <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39937\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delusional assertions<\/a><\/strong> as to his innocence, and infantile, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39942\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vulgar references<\/a><\/strong> about his critics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-toilet-golden-tweeting.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38963\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2463882616959852\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s the substance of his own analyses of his legal status that really stretch the boundaries of credulity. He simply blurts out nonsense in his defense that is steeped in panic and only serves to make him look even more guilty. That&#8217;s what occurred when Trump took to his Twitter machine and blasted out these messages:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On 245  occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn\u2019t know, didn\u2019t recall, or couldn\u2019t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) &#8211; didn\u2019t know who signed off and didn\u2019t know Christopher Steele. All lies!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1071760971088228352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leakin\u2019 James Comey must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress in one day. His Friday testimony was so untruthful! This whole deal is a Rigged Fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become President. They are now exposed!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1071764777679114240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s important to note that Trump&#8217;s information came from his usual unreliable source: Fox News. He was watching when ultra-rightist GOP congressman (and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/10\/us\/ohio-state-university-wrestling-jim-jordan\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleged pedophile enabler<\/a><\/strong>) Jim Jordan made the allegations of lying against former FBI director James Comey. How Jordan came up with the number <em>&#8220;245&#8221;<\/em> is unclear, but Trump repeated it blindly.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/document-transcript-james-comeys-dec-7-interview-house-committees\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transcript of Comey&#8217;s testimony<\/a><\/strong> finds a total of 218 instances of <em>&#8220;don&#8217;t know,&#8221; &#8220;recall,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;remember.&#8221;<\/em> But many of those were uttered by the Republican questioners (i.e. <em>&#8220;Do you remember&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>). Many others were Comey using the words positively (i.e. <em>&#8220;Yes, I do remember that.&#8221;<\/em>). Still others were Comey repeating his answer to identical questions. And of course, many were responses to immaterial questions like what job title someone held on a particular date or what a document said that he had never seen. There nearly 800 questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>Trump can&#8217;t cite a single instance of an actual lie by Comey. He&#8217;s just making blanket statements with no basis in reality. For instance, it is not disputed by anyone that Comey and Christopher Steele did not know each other. Steele had limited dealings with the FBI, and always at levels below the Director. This is similar to Trump&#8217;s frequently stated falsehood that Comey and Mueller are best friends. Trump has even said that <em>&#8220;there are hundreds of pictures&#8221;<\/em> of them <em>&#8220;hugging and kissing&#8221;<\/em> (actually, there aren&#8217;t any). Comey did address that in his testimony, pointedly noting that, while he admires him, they are not friends. He elaborated saying that <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know his phone number, I&#8217;ve never been to his house, I don&#8217;t know his children&#8217;s names. I think I had a meal once alone with him in a restaurant.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump is also violating the tenets of Due Process that he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/962348831789797381\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously whined<\/a> was nonexistent. But the most hypocritical part of Trump&#8217;s tweets was his claim that Comey <em>&#8220;set a record for who lied the most.&#8221;<\/em> But even if you agree to use the 245 number that Jordan and Trump are falsely asserting, Comey is still far short of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2018\/11\/02\/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s 6,000+ lies<\/a><\/strong> that he&#8217;s told just since his inauguration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For Trump to even criticize anyone else for alleged falsehoods is laughable. His pathological compulsion to deceive in all things great or small is well documented. And considering his utterly untrustworthy reputation, you would think he would avoid any such comparisons. But that&#8217;s just another of Trump&#8217;s psychoses. He really thinks he can do say anything &#8211; no matter how absurd or provably false &#8211; and get away with it. And at least with regard to his glassy-eyed cult followers &#8211; he may be right. Unfortunately for him, that&#8217;s a tiny (although still too large) minority of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest display of Donald Trump&#8217;s frantic fear and desperation appeared Sunday morning on Twitter (as usual). He is getting more unhinged with every passing day. Especially when those days include filings from special counsel Robert Mueller and the New York Attorney&#8217;s office sentencing Trump&#8217;s former close associates. The walls closing in on the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8],"tags":[1291,554,33,1179,1323,1247],"class_list":["post-39949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-christopher-steele","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-james-comey","tag-jim-jordan","tag-robert-mueller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aol","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41640,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41640","url_meta":{"origin":39949,"position":0},"title":"Dazed and Confused: Trump Can&#8217;t Keep His Mueller Stories &#8211; or Anything Else &#8211; Straight","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/30\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Since Donald Trump ordered the White House Press Office to stop doing daily press briefings nearly three months ago, the only media access to the President has been his impromptu harangues on the White House lawn in front of the whirring blades of his helicopter. 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