Trump says he ‘never met Putin’ — despite bragging about meeting him just last year

[DonViejo]

-snip-

In an interview with Florida news station CBS4 Miami, Trump denied he had any business dealings with Russia and even went so far as to say that he’d never met Putin. “I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever,” he told the station.

This is interesting because during a debate last year, Trump explicitly said that he’d met Putin while the two of them were set to appear on 60 Minutes.

“I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes, we were stablemates,” said Trump at the time.

Additionally, The Hill notes that Donald Trump Jr. told a 2008 real estate conference that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

Full article + video of interview:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/watch-trump-says-he-never-met-putin-despite-bragging-about-meeting-him-just-last-year/

[tonyt53]

1. THIS is the story that needs to be pushed starting Friday. For now, lets keep Philly at the front.

Tie this story in with the DNC hack story and people will start to question him.

[treestar]

7. +1

Anything so directly contradictory about a simple fact needs repeating. It shows he is a liar who says what is convenient for any moment.

[rjsquirrel]

2. His lies start to contradict each other

This story is going to hurt him.


Yay.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. This is like fucking Rick James being competitive in the presidential race. Where the

fuck am I?

[auntpurl]

31. SERIOUSLY

[notadmblnd]

4. Well it wouldn't be the first time a Presidential candidate lied, now will it?

[NewJeffCT]

12. No, certainly not.. .but, with Trump

he's shattering records for dishonesty. Easily the most dishonest candidate since fact-checking has started. The only person close has been Ted Cruz. With W, a lot of his BS was half-true. With Trump, it's usually just outright BS

[notadmblnd]

14. Now that one made me laugh out loud.

I'm no defender of Trump, but he does like to compete with others.

[randome]

15. He's HUGE with dishonesty!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[auntpurl]

32. He has the best lies. Believe him.

[lark]

35. He has the BIGGEST LIES!

Is this compensating for his small hands?

[calimary]

44. I guess that means he lies "bigly".

And now the word (from his man, Paul Manafort, who's already spent time in bed with the Russians and their puppets in the Ukraine), is - that there will be NO release of tax returns?

What are they hiding? I think we have some well-founded suspicions.

[lark]

46. The real Wikileaks needs to come to the rescue.

They need to hack the tax returns and put them up all over. They need to pay the Russians' back for their manipulation of them by going after the one who will turn them loose to ravage Eastern Europe. Of course, this is my dream, I have no ideas how they feel about Drumpf or the Ruskies.

[maxsolomon]

34. But it may be the first time a candidate has never once

made a true statement.

EVERYTHING he says is a lie, or a sarcastic joke, or obvious bombast.

we're not just post-fact, we're post-lie.

[onecent]

5. K&R

[maryellen99]

6. I bet any money he met Putin back in 2013

When the Miss Universe Pageant was in Moscow.

[SwankyXomb]

29. Presumably they were divvying up

who gets to molest which contestant.

[Peacetrain]

8. This story is just getting crazier and crazier

[Democat]

9. Democrats need to push this together

Every weekend show should be about Trump's Russian spy ties.

[calimary]

47. Charles Pierce in Esquire magazine has said as much.

Donald Trump's and Vladimir Putin's Shared Agenda Should Alarm Anyone Concerned About Democracy
This is all we should ask Trump about until November. (<=== Subtitle)

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a46984/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/

On edit -

BTW - we can help by tweeting, Facebook posting, and other uses of social media, about this to these news anchors and reporters. If they see the public wants more of this, they'll react accordingly. Push it, Push it, Push it!!!!

[randome]

52. NO! Every weekend show should be about the GOP's Russian spy ties!

We need to more definitively link Trump to the GOP. He can be the anvil, even if cut loose, that can sink them further!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Democat]

53. Agreed, that comment came later

By the weekend, there might be even worse news for Trump.

[Doodley]

10. If Democrats play this story right. It's all over for Trump.

This story needs to be hammered away every day until the election.

[rdking647]

11. acoording to the story

when they were on 60 minutes together they were actually on seperate continents

[workinclasszero]

13. "Trump denied he had any business dealings with Russia"....What a damn liar!

Look at the video on this post by BlueStateLib:

Smoking Gun Found in DNC Hack
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512306746

[UCmeNdc]

16. Make Trump and Paul Manafort answer for their deceit.

They need to be put under oath.

[MoonRiver]

17. DimDon can't keep his lies straight.

And his handlers aren't much help to him. I guess he likes em stupid.

[2naSalit]

20. I think that one of the few

honest things he's ever said was that he "loves low education voters".

[MoonRiver]

22. And that was undoubtedly a slip of tongue.

[2naSalit]

23. Heh, no doubt about that......nt

[CanonRay]

18. "I got to know him very well" "I never met him"

Trump is a serial liar. Serial liars can never keep track of their own lies.

[2naSalit]

21. +1!!

[workinclasszero]

37. Yeah it becomes impossible after awhile

Then they just lie every time they open their mouth like Trump.

[meow2u3]

19. K&R

[unitedwethrive]

24. Good pickup!

[63splitwindow]

25. ...

[Zoonart]

27. This just happened!

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump told reporters Wednesday morning at Trump National Doral Miami. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

Rump just invited a foreign power to hack our government.

TRUMP=TREASON!

Not cute or funny.

[63splitwindow]

30. Lighten up. Of course it isn't cute or funny but the picture is. nt

[Zoonart]

48. Point taken...

Just concerned about trivializing the danger this stain poses to our country.

[63splitwindow]

50. I think a portion of our society today forms opinions based upon silly images like that one. nt

[workinclasszero]

40. Yup TREASON

From a man who wants to be Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States!

Putin likes!

[merrifield]

26. So WHY

Why idn't any of the reporters CALL HIM on either of these things? Ask him point blank why he said he had gotten to know him "very well" as his stablemate and now denied ever having met him? And why did they not bring up the point of his son saying money was pouring in from Russia and let Trump say he had nothing to do with Russia financially? It's so depressing to have a press like this.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. As if more proof is needed,... his tax returns may have evidence of Russian loans, ... and more

Trump is not credit-worthy enough to get loans from US banks.

At the same time his debt load has ballooned from mid $200 Meg to $690 million.

There is something or many things really damning hidden in those returns.

Could be one of or all of:

* Loans from Russian oligarchs

* Net worth a lot less than he wants us to believe

* Charity donation scams

* Offshore accounts / offshore manufacturing

* Paid ridiculously low taxes

[lark]

38. Russian loans and insolvency

are the 2 things that I think are keeping the taxes hidden. He's crow about not paying taxes, how smart he is, etc. so don't think that's an issue to him. The other 2 could prevent him from being president.

[workinclasszero]

43. I'm gonna go with this one for sure!

"Loans from Russian oligarchs"

[C Moon]

33. Trump has been on the defensive a lot lately. And I'm loving it.

I doubt he'll fare well through this election: he doesn't seem handle criticism very well.

[edhopper]

36. let me explain

60 Minutes did segments on both Putin and Trump the same night.

Of course they had nothing to do with each other, but since Trump also watched the Putin segment he thinks they are now connected, and he "knows" Putin.

He is an imbecile.

[IMG][/IMG]

[bucolic_frolic]

39. He's a traitor, a liar, a con

and the American People are not paying sufficient heed

Asking Russia for help in defeating his political opponent

Russia! A foreign power!

This is Watergate, 1980 October Surprise, Iran Contra, WMD's

all woven together

On steroids!

[workinclasszero]

45. +1

[TeamPooka]

42. We need to scream RUSSIA longer and louder than the GOP did Benghazi. nt

[neeksgeek]

49. I'm sending these stories to my mother, a diehard Trump supporter.

She and my sister both have decided that Trump is the answer to all our prayers.

I email my mom everything I can find that exposes Trump's true character. I've tried having an actual discussion with her, but that doesn't go very well. At any rate, her response to anything that doesn't agree with her point of view is that it must be made-up by the media. It's sad, but I think a lot of people are seduced by his appeal to fear.

(Talking to my sister about Trump is out of the question; there's no hope of having a rational discussion with her, because she believes that if you disagree with her, you're the enemy. If we do end up in a right-wing dictatorship, I firmly expect her to denounce me as a liberal professor out to pollute young minds. No sarcasm intended.)


There's not much more I can do to convince them. They're so opposed to Hillary (to say nothing of Bernie), that they would probably vote Mussolini into office. Oh wait...

[dawnie51]

51. Do you suppose ANYONE is going to get to the bottom of this?

Preferably BEFORE the election! Some sort of investigative body, with tools at their disposal to ferret out lies and corruption? Like media?

[kestrel91316]

54. Maybe he never DID meet Putin. But his handler Manafort is almost

certainly in Putin's employ, and Trump owes millions to the Russian mob, so it's kind of moot.

[Blue Owl]

55. Swept under the rug, so to speak

n/t