Transcript of Trump's bizarre, rambling solo press conference on Kavanaugh, Rosenstein, and more
It is really scary that we have a President with these babbling comments that the world heard.
Trump’s bizarre, rambling solo press conference on Kavanaugh, Rosenstein, and more
Sep 26, 2018, 7:23pm EDT
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.......................REPORTER: Let me follow up on Jim’s question. Mr. President, let me follow up on Jim’s question that I don’t think we got an answer to.
TRUMP: Which one? Which question?
REPORTER: How have your personal experiences, being accused by more than a dozen —
TRUMP: I’ve been accused. False accusations.
REPORTER: Right.
TRUMP: Excuse me. I’ve been accused. And I was accused by — I believe it was four women. You can check with Sean Hannity. You can check with Fox, because they covered it very strongly.
REPORTER: And how —
TRUMP: Who got paid. Excuse me. Excuse me. I was accused by four or five women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me. We caught them in the mainstream media refused to put it on television. They refused to even write about it. There were four women, and maybe more, I think the number is four or five. But one had a mortgage paid off her house, $52,000. Another one had other things happen. And the one that reported it, I believe was offered $750,000. To say bad things about me. And she is the one that reported it. This woman is incredible. She reported it. Instead of taking the money. So I have had numerous accusations about me.
REPORTER: Right.
TRUMP: I mean, they made false statements about me. Knowing they were false. I never met them. I never met these people. And what did they do? What did they do? They took money in order to say bad things. I’ve had stories written in the New York Times, front page, about four women. The whole top center front page of the New York Times. I think it was four big I said, wow, that’s a big thing. What’s that? These were women that were quoted saying bad things about me. Not the worst things about me.
But bad things. And I said, gee, that’s too bad. I knew them a long time ago. 15 years ago, 20 years ago. I said, that’s too bad. I’m surprised at them. And then all of a sudden, I see them on television. Nothing to do with me. The next day or day later, they were incensed. They said, Donald Trump is a nice guy. We never said this. The New York Times did false reporting. They’re fake news.
And you know what? The New York Times would not report that their story was fake. These women said great things. Not only did they not say the bad stuff. They said great things about me. Front page. And those women — they’re incredible women. They went on television, and they didn’t want to. And I didn’t ask them. And they said the New York Times made it up. They gave false quotes. And they went on a lot of shows. They were really incensed, and they couldn’t believe it. That’s why people know that a lot of the news is fake. And a lot of the people sitting here are fake. But 20 percent of them are wonderful.
REPORTER: If I could just actually ask that question, Mr. Trump. You didn’t let me ask my question.
TRUMP: You’ve been asking a question for ten minutes. Please sit down. Please, go ahead. Go ahead.
REPORTER: Have those impacted your opinions on the allegations against —
TRUMP: It does impact my opinion. You know why? Because I’ve had a lot of false charges made against me. I’m a very famous person. Unfortunately. I’ve been a famous person for a long time. But I’ve had a lot of false charges made against me. Really false charges. I know friends that have had false charges. People want fame, they want money, they want whatever. So when I see it, I view it differently than somebody sitting home watching television where they say, oh, Judge Kavanaugh, this or that. It’s happened to me many times. I’ve had many false charges. I had a woman sitting in an airplane, and I attacked her while people were coming on to the plane? And I have a number one bestseller out?
It was a total phony story. There are many of them. So when you say does it affect me in terms of my thinking with respect to Judge Kavanaugh, absolutely. Because I’ve had it many times. And if the news would have reported these four people, I couldn’t believe it. When I heard they caught these four people, I said, wow. That’s a big story. And it was. For Fox. Okay. .................................
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