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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:24 AM Aug 2017

Trump tells anecdote how useless "experts" are... SURPRISE! It was totally made-up.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/he-has-a-psychological-problem-21-club-owner-says-trump-made-up-anecdote-used-in-afghanistan-meeting/

Speaking to his national security advisers, Trump reportedly explained Club 21 wasted a lot of money in the ’80’s when it “hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation.”

“After a year, Trump said, the consultant’s only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen,” NBC reported.

“The clear message if you heard the story was: High-priced consultants, or high-priced anybody, expensive, supposedly big-brained people, but who are physically far from the source of the problem, often give you much worse advice than the supposedly low-ranking guys who are right there,” a source told NBC.

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As it turns out, “21” did not close for a year. It shuttered for less than two months in 1987, and required no outside consulting. “There was no consultant,” Cogan told Page Six.
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Trump tells anecdote how useless "experts" are... SURPRISE! It was totally made-up. (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2017 OP
Does he hire architects? canetoad Aug 2017 #1
It's easy. Measure once, gild twice. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2017 #3
Oh that's good! Ilsa Aug 2017 #5
Yes he does genxlib Aug 2017 #6
He just can't stop himself from LYING Submariner Aug 2017 #2
It doesn't matter that the story is a complete lie Orrex Aug 2017 #4
"Ha ha" - republicans enchanted with his* lies Achilleaze Aug 2017 #7

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
1. Does he hire architects?
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:35 AM
Aug 2017

Or just hire a bunch of builders to show up and put his buildings together from scratch?

Orrex

(63,085 posts)
4. It doesn't matter that the story is a complete lie
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 07:07 AM
Aug 2017

His drooling acolytes are suspicious of "experts," especially college-educated "experts," so the falsehood of the tale means nothing to them. They'll simply declare that their idiot god-king is only saying what everyone already knows, so what does it matter that the details are fudged a little?

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