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Misty » 19 Mar 2017 10:52 am » wrote:Donald Trump’s Explanation To Tucker Carlson On Wiretapping Allegation Is A Rambling Mess

Donald Trump was given a gift.

He was interviewed by Tucker Carlson of Fox News.

While not a sycophant like Sean Hannity, Carlson is still going to provide a relatively friendly atmosphere for the President.

It should have been a home run for President Trump instead he flailed about and didn’t do himself any favors.

Not only did he ramble, he outright lied as well.

Here is a partial transcript:
This is where President Trump makes me nervous.

He’s used the “Other people have said it” excuse for unfounded allegations he’s said before.

For example, in the case of supposed voter fraud, he stated in an interview with ABC News, “lots of people are saying they saw things happen.”

It’s as if he believes as long as he thinks somebody is levying an accusation of some kind, it’s safe for him to repeat it.

Also, what is it with him and “things?”

In the course of a little over a minute, the President said “things,” eight times.

“We’re submitting things.” What things?

It makes almost no sense and Carlson should have followed up on that.

The worst part is President Trump flat out lies about the “quotes.”

Look at what he says:

“…and don’t forget I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes.”

He follows up with, “And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that’s a very important thing.”

His statement is a flat out lie.

Nobody ever talks about his tweets about wiretapping to be in quotes because everybody can see there were no quotes.

** Update: Trump used quotes in two of the tweets and in others he did not:

In this one and this one he did.

But he also tweeted specifically about his phones being “tapped.” –

“I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” and “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

He made specific allegations about his phones being tapped which would not cover “a lot of different things.”

Carlson gave Trump an opening to say, “I misspoke” or “Yeah, I may have gone too far there” but instead the President lied to make it appear as if people misunderstood and what he said was correct.

Why? Because they’ll be “submitting things before the committee.”

http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/ ... ling-mess/