Trump's lawyer du jour, Mr. Taco Peanuts, stated last night on Ari Melber's "The Beat" that,

[Atticus]

in order for a statement to be a lie, it must be "under oath in a proceeding".

This gilded anal sphincter has a license to practice ------what? "Transparent silliness"?

[The Magistrate]

1. That's Perjury, Sir

This is like saying it's not a punch in the head if it's struck outside a boxing ring....

[Mr.Bill]

6. Mr. Melber wes quick

to point that out to him.

[RockRaven]

2. "while sitting under a gold-fringed flag, on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, with a new moon, and..."

Yeah, okay, buddy.

[Ocelot II]

3. Oh, FFS. A knowingly false statement under oath in a proceeding is perjury.

A knowingly false statement anywhere else is a lie. When he said in order for a false statement to be a lie it must be under oath in a proceeding, he lied because he knows that was a false statement. (It's sort of like saying a blowjob isn't sexual relations, and we know what happened there...)

[bluesbassman]

4. Gaslighting will soon overtake baseball as the national pastime.

At least in MAGAt circles. The problem is the rest of us have to wade through all of the sewage. It’s exhausting.

[malaise]

5. Ari called him on his BS

Live on air

[lamp_shade]

7. Taco Peanuts

I call him Mr. Tapioca earlier today when I couldn't think of his name.

[multigraincracker]

8. He should make an excellent

Jail House Lawyer.

[Chainfire]

9. Neither is is a lie if you have your fingers crossed when making the false statement.

I learned that in second grade!