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'I was right!' Being Donald Trump means never saying you were wrong.
‘I was right!’ Being Donald Trump means never saying you were wrong @WPJohnWagner
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‘I was right!’ Being Donald Trump means never saying you were wrong.
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights
By John Wagner December 13 at 4:56 PM
In the days leading up to the Alabama Senate election, President Trump called Roy Moore to endorse him, touted his candidacy at a rally just across the state line and recorded a robo-call in which he described Moore as “the guy we need.”
On the day after Moore lost the election, Trump said he saw it coming. ... In a morning tweet, the president relayed that he had originally endorsed another Republican for the seat because “I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election.”
“I was right!” the president exclaimed.
Trump, it turns out, is rarely, if ever, wrong — at least as he tells it. Since his emergence as a presidential candidate, he has repeatedly refused to accept blame for setbacks or admit he’s made a mistake. Instead, the president is quick to try to shift responsibility, deny he ever did something in the first place or otherwise dissemble.
After the loss of Luther Strange, the Alabama candidate Trump endorsed in the GOP primary, he literally tried to erase history: Trump deleted several tweets in which he had urged Alabamians to vote for “Big Luther,” whom Trump had claimed “will never let you down.”
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John Wagner is a national political reporter covering the White House.
Follow @WPJohnWagner
‘I was right!’ Being Donald Trump means never saying you were wrong.
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights
By John Wagner December 13 at 4:56 PM
In the days leading up to the Alabama Senate election, President Trump called Roy Moore to endorse him, touted his candidacy at a rally just across the state line and recorded a robo-call in which he described Moore as “the guy we need.”
On the day after Moore lost the election, Trump said he saw it coming. ... In a morning tweet, the president relayed that he had originally endorsed another Republican for the seat because “I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election.”
Link to tweet
“I was right!” the president exclaimed.
Trump, it turns out, is rarely, if ever, wrong — at least as he tells it. Since his emergence as a presidential candidate, he has repeatedly refused to accept blame for setbacks or admit he’s made a mistake. Instead, the president is quick to try to shift responsibility, deny he ever did something in the first place or otherwise dissemble.
After the loss of Luther Strange, the Alabama candidate Trump endorsed in the GOP primary, he literally tried to erase history: Trump deleted several tweets in which he had urged Alabamians to vote for “Big Luther,” whom Trump had claimed “will never let you down.”
....
John Wagner is a national political reporter covering the White House.
Follow @WPJohnWagner
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