Says He Didnt Know Bannon Until Campaign, but They Met in 2011

[struggle4progress]

By LINDA QIU
APRIL 12, 2017

... Mr. Trump told The New York Post that he didn’t know Stephen K. Bannon before the 2016 campaign.

“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist, and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.”

FALSE. Mr. Trump has known Mr. Bannon, his chief strategist, since 2011, when Mr. Trump was considering a presidential run ...

Mr. Bannon joked in August 2015 that he was Mr. Trump’s hidden “campaign manager,” and he hosted Mr. Trump on his radio show in November 2015 ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/politics/trump-steven-bannon-fox-business-news-interview.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump cant tell the truth no matter whether it helps or harms him.

He simply hasnt told the truth his entire life, never will.

Not a surprise, everybody has known this for 2 decades or more.

[gratuitous]

2. But the lie is so much more convenient

Besides, it's not like the New York Post is going to cross President Trump by bringing up a fact.

[malaise]

3. And someone will release the interviewin 3...2...1

Groper Don the Con is a pathological LIAR

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Seems to me,Trump started his Campaign in 2005 or abut that time frame.