He’s a liar
by digby
Either here:
Letterman: Have you had any dealings with the Russians?Trump: I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians. I know the Russians very well pic.twitter.com/u3FyvcXeoq
— Lauren Werner (@LaurenWern) February 17, 2017
Or yesterday:
I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia. President Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election.
He then, called me up extremely nicely to congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. But so did many other leaders, almost all other leaders from almost all of the country. So that’s the extent.
Russia is fake news. Russia — this is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that people, probably from the Obama administration because they’re there, because we have our new people going in place, right now.
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I have nothing to do with Russia. I told you, I have no deals there, I have no anything.
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Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia. Not that I wouldn’t. I just have nobody to speak to.
I spoke to Putin twice. He called me on the election. I told you this. And he called me on the inauguration, a few days ago…
I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.
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