New bombshell: Trump committed perjury or lied about trying to bribe Jeb — ‘there’s no third option’

[kpete]

September 23, 2016
Kurt Eichenwald
Posted with permission from Newsweek


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


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.


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The deposition was part of a lawsuit he’d filed against Richard Fields, who Trump had hired to manage the expansion of his casino business into Florida. In the suit, Trump claimed that Fields had quit and taken all of the information he obtained while working for Trump to another company. Under oath, Trump said he did want to get into casino gambling in Florida but didn’t because he had been cheated by Fields.

A lawyer asked Trump, “Did you yourself do anything to obtain any of the details with respect to the Florida gaming environment, what approvals were needed and so forth?”

Trump: A little bit.

Lawyer: What did you do?

Trump: I actually spoke with Governor-Elect Bush; I had a big fundraiser for Governor-Elect Bush…and I think it was his most successful fundraiser, the most successful that he had had up until that point, that was in Trump Tower in New York on Fifth Avenue.

Lawyer: When was that?

Trump: Sometime prior to his election.

Lawyer: You knew that Governor Bush, Jeb Bush at that time, was opposed to expansion of gaming in Florida, didn't you?

Trump: I thought that he could be convinced otherwise.

Lawyer: But you didn't change his mind about his anti-gaming stance, did you?

Trump: Well, I never really had that much of an opportunity because Fields resigned, telling me you could never get what we wanted done, only to do it for another company.

One of these stories is a lie—a detailed, self-serving fabrication. But unlike the mountain of other lies he has told, this time the character trait that leads to Trump’s mendacity is on full display: He makes things up when he doesn’t want to admit he lost.





THE REST!:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeb-bush-lie-florida-casino-gambling-502144
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/new-bombshell-trump-committed-perjury-or-lied-about-trying-to-bribe-jeb-theres-no-third-option/

[Gabi Hayes]

1. saw the other thread on this before yours. Larry ODonnell just

had him on, discussing it

they IMPEACHED Clinton over perjury, remember?

and he lost his law license because of it (temporarily, IIRC)

[NightWatcher]

2. He could shoot someone in the face on live tv and it wouldn't matter to his supporters

they don't care that he lies.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. from the link....remember how much praise was heaped on trump for his

fantastic presidential demeanor on foreign soil? the most presidential demeanor ever in the history of presidenting?

Trump’s penchant for this type of baldfaced lying could undermine American foreign policy—when he meets with a foreign official, will he try to deceive the world about what happened? That question already came into play in early September when Trump flew to Mexico to talk with that country’s president in a bizarre publicity stunt. He came out of the meeting and declared the two had never discussed his signature issue—that he would compel the Mexican government to pay for a wall along America’s southern border.

Before an hour passed, a Mexican official declared that Trump’s statement was false, and that President Enrique Peña Nieto had told the Republican nominee that his country would never pony up the cash for the wall. Either Trump lied or Peña Nieto did. The government of Mexico—one of America’s most important trading partners and allies—knows whether a President Trump will be trustworthy or will lie out of convenience, on matters large or small. Shouldn’t the American public know the same before it votes in November?

[Gabi Hayes]

4. remember how much he flipped and flopped about all his

dealings with Putin, from 60 Minutes to Miss Universe to being so ''brilliant,'' in Putin's mistranslated description, among other ludicrosities?

[lindysalsagal]

5. I Hope HRC has a flip-flopper/hyppocrite ad ready to go.

He was for it before he was against it" has ruined other politicians.

[napkinz]

6. K&R

[Stuart G]

7. k and r

[UTUSN]

8. R#7 & K n/t