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Fri Sep 23, 2016, 01:31 PM Sep 2016

New Kurt Eichenwald: Congress would need to impeach Trump for perjury

Kurt Eichenwald ?@kurteichenwald 5m5 minutes ago
In @Newsweek: Congress will have to hold impeachment proceedings to investigate a President Trump for perjury. http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeb-bush-lie-florida-casino-gambling-502144

Donald Trump Either Lied to the Republicans or Broke the Law (Exclusive)
by Kurt Eichenwald

Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and knowingly lied. There is no third option.

It has become an accepted reality of this presidential campaign that Trump spins a near-endless series of falsehoods. For months, the media has struggled with this unprecedented situation—a candidate who, unlike other politicians who stretch the truth, simply creates his own reality. Trumps regularly peddles “facts” that aren’t true, describes events that never happened or denies engaging in actions that everyone saw him do. He utters his falsehoods so fast that before reporters have the chance to correct one, he has tossed out five or six more.

This time, it is different. Trump can’t skip past his perfidy here. There are two records—one, a previously undisclosed deposition of the Republican nominee testifying under oath, and the second a transcript/video of a Republican presidential debate. In them, Trump tells contradictory versions of the same story with the clashing accounts tailored to provide what he wanted people to believe when he was speaking...

Trump had been boasting for weeks at his rallies that he knew the political system better than anyone, because he had essentially bought off politicians for decades by giving them campaign contributions when he wanted something. He also proclaimed that only he—as an outsider who had participated in such corruption of American democracy at a high level—could clean it up. During the September 2015 debate, one of Trump’s rivals, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, verified Trump’s claim, saying the billionaire had tried to buy him off with favors and contributions when he was Florida’s governor.

"The one guy that had some special interests that I know of that tried to get me to change my views on something—that was generous and gave me money—was Donald Trump,” Bush said. “He wanted casino gambling in Florida."

Trump interrupted Bush:

Trump: I didn’t—


read more: http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeb-bush-lie-florida-casino-gambling-502144
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New Kurt Eichenwald: Congress would need to impeach Trump for perjury (Original Post) bigtree Sep 2016 OP
Lawrence ODonnell just had him on Gabi Hayes Sep 2016 #1
 

Gabi Hayes

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1. Lawrence ODonnell just had him on
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 10:56 PM
Sep 2016

discussing this same article

meaty meaty source of fun for Monday night

think good old Lester will bring it up?

doubt it

what are the odds?

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