Tell-All Authors Confronted Donald Trump On His Lies And He Replied With 1 Word

Lee Moran; Tue, July 20, 2021

Former President Donald Trump had a surprisingly candid response when challenged over the tens of thousands of lies he told during his time in office, according to the author of a new tell-all book.

“We asked him why, as president, he thought it was OK for him to continually tell the American people things that were not true, to lie again and again and again,” Washington Post journalist Philip Rucker recalled of interviewing Trump on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“And he said to us, ‘You know, there’s a beautiful word, and it’s called disinformation*,’” Rucker said.

Rucker and fellow Post journalist Carol Leonnig sat down with Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, in March for their book documenting the last months of his presidency. The tell-all, titled “‘I Alone Can Fix It’: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” was released Tuesday.

When asked why Trump bothered to do the interview, given his attacks on the media in general and the Post in particular, Leonnig suggested that the former president knew he was addicted to the attention.

”It is a sickness in some respects,” she said. “However, I would argue part of the reason he sat with us for so long is because we were eager to hear his explanations ... his narrative of this incredible, consequential and ultimately catastrophic year. We wanted him to have a chance to explain that.”

Trump’s main grievances centered on “how often people around him failed him,” she added. “I think it’s so interesting his narrative is basically that he alone was the brilliant genius and everyone else was an enemy or a weak, paltry stand-in.”

*disinformation; NOUN - false information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media. Synonyms: lie · falsehood · fib · fabrication · deception · made-up story · trumped-up story · f**e news · invention · fiction · piece of fiction · falsification · falsity · cock and bull story · barefaced lie · (little) white lie · half-t***h · exaggeration · prevarication

As I said before, the term "To defund the police" should be completely abandon as there are to many definitions to its meaning and only will lead to miscommunications. IE to defund doesn't necessarily relate to eliminating but rather reappropriate, yet it can...the word now leads to confusion, where people are not on the same page. This has been happening a lot with the English language.

To adjust to this rising problem, the police force should have a special team for an on call bases.

As I said before, the term "To defund the police" should be completely abandon as there are to many definitions to its meaning and only will lead to miscommunications. IE to defund doesn't necessarily relate to eliminating but rather reappropriate, yet it can...the word now leads to confusion, where people are not on the same page. This has been happening a lot with the English language.

To adjust to this rising problem, the police force should have a special team for an on call bases.

It’s a shame what you say here is not what the action of the different municipalities show... We’ve seen eliminate, just not the reappropriating of, when does that come since they now have such savings in less police with more budgets approved for “ alternative measures.” How high do the crime statistics have to go or how many raped, k**led, robbed for our illustrious politicians to “ act ??

I wish what you say here was the intent it just isn't working out that easy or that way.....

Sweeping “defund the police” as put out by AOC must’ve been the start of the confusion since so many v**ed against congress at that time and Congress even called her out as to why they lost seats...