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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFinnish president denies ever discussing 'raking' with Trump
By QUINT FORGEY 11/18/2018 12:53 PM EST
The leader of Finland denied on Sunday that hed ever told President Donald Trump that the small Nordic nation relies upon raking its forests to prevent wildfires even though Trump promoted the dubious conservation method during a visit to flame-ravaged California over the weekend.
You look at other countries where they do it differently, and its a whole different story, Trump said Saturday, standing alongside Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom of California among the charred ruins of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in the town of Paradise.
I was with the president of Finland, and he said, We have a much different were a forest nation. He called it a forest nation, Trump continued. And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they dont have any problem. And when it is, its a very small problem. So I know everybodys looking at that to that end. And its going to work out, its going to work out well.
But President Sauli Niinistö of Finland told Ilta-Sanomat, the countrys second-largest newspaper, on Sunday that he never discussed raking with Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend, where the leaders attended various commemorations marking the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I.
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Finnish president denies ever discussing 'raking' with Trump (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2018
OP
Oh for cryn' out loud! I guess I should have known. NOTHING truthful comes out of his mouth.
Equinox Moon
Nov 2018
#6
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)1. More on the story
dawg day
(7,947 posts)2. Was there ever a man who lied so much? And for no reason.
And here our allies feel emboldened just to point out he's talking sht. They should-- we need to hear over and over again that this is what Trump does.
He's trying to make environmental policy on the basis of a conversation he just made up.
Doesn't matter how many facts he's presented with (like, oh, Finland's climate is sub-arctic-- NOTHING like California's), he'll just blithely say that what he says goes.
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)3. surprise. Trump lied. I knew he was lying when I heard the audio
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. I knew he was lying!
First of all, because he always lies and secondly because the Finnish President would never be so stupid as to say that they manage their forests by "raking and cleaning". Thirdly, because I doubt he would waste his time talking to Donald Trump at all about anything.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)5. Not to mention, Finland gets rain. And snow.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)6. Oh for cryn' out loud! I guess I should have known. NOTHING truthful comes out of his mouth.
TomSlick
(11,097 posts)7. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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