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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Nov 9, 2018, 01:48 PM Nov 2018

BUSTED: Trump denies knowing Matt Whitaker one month after saying 'I know Matt Whitaker'... [View all]

Source: RawStory



BUSTED: Trump denies knowing Matt Whitaker — one month after saying ‘I know Matt Whitaker’ in Fox interview


BRAD REED
09 NOV 2018 AT 12:11 ET

President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowing anything at all about Matt Whitaker, the man whom he’s controversially appointed to be his acting attorney general.

During his lengthy rant to reporters on Friday on the White House lawn, the president responded defensively to questions about why he appointed Whitaker to run the Department of Justice — and he even denied knowing the man he tapped to be the nation’s top law enforcement officer at all.

“I don’t know Matt Whitaker,” Trump claimed. “Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions. And he was always extremely highly thought of, and he still is. But I didn’t know Matt Whitaker.”

However, during an October 11th interview with “Fox & Friends,” the president literally said that he knew Matt Whitaker.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/busted-trump-denies-knowing-matt-whitaker-one-month-saying-know-matt-whitaker-fox-interview/



The "I know Matt Whitaker" blah, blah begins at 34:35

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The lying King knows him, duforsure Nov 2018 #1
The alternative reasoning ChiTownDenny Nov 2018 #13
I wonder if he knows who greymattermom Nov 2018 #2
Three psychopaths sitting on a white couch and the traitor turbinetree Nov 2018 #3
Donald Trump LIED? SergeStorms Nov 2018 #4
LOL, well Whitaker's now on the list of people/things he didn't know. Kind of Blue Nov 2018 #5
republican lies are dangerous for America Achilleaze Nov 2018 #6
You mean he lied? SayItLoud Nov 2018 #7
KICK for Trump LYING once again................ Bengus81 Nov 2018 #8
And they met in person: muriel_volestrangler Nov 2018 #9
Apparently, the Commander in Bullshit is at it again. Firestorm49 Nov 2018 #10
K&R Scurrilous Nov 2018 #11
Trump lied, the sky is blue Pisces Nov 2018 #12
He's lying again, duforsure Nov 2018 #14
He's like a 4 year old Rizen Nov 2018 #15
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