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Donnie, Donnie, Donnie. The internet is forever.
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What a maroon, he really tells it like it is…or something. BUILD A WALL!
“By the time the war started, I was against the war,” Trump added.
So the lines were drawn, the warnings issued, and the predictions or promises made in the fall of 2002. I have no recollection, and can find no record, of Donald Trump saying anything whatsoever in public about invading Iraq before the war began.
To say this again: I’m as likely to have noticed Trump’s public opposition to the war, had it existed, as anyone you’ll find. And I am not aware of his having said anything, nor has anyone provided any evidence that he did so. I believe he is completely making this up.
Yet numerous fact–checkers have strained to find the supporting citations, with no luck whatsoever. Sure, Trump evaluated the war as a “mess” several days after its start; that qualifies as punditry, not visionary leadership.
“Back to Fall Out Boy…”
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Trump: I dont remember what I say. It matters what I feel at that time.Besides, I was impressed by George Bush at that time. I was only looking at the tax breaks I was going to get.
Sorry, Donald. Set aside the question of how anonymous of a modest, unassuming businessman you were in 2002. James Fallows wrote a big cover story in the run-up to the war, talked to everyone with any interest in it, and if you’d been saying you were against it beforehand he’d have known. You weren’t. He heard nothing about it then and can find no evidence now that you did any such thing. And one tossed-off remark at a party—“the war’s a mess”—in the chaotic early days when anyone could see the war was a mess doesn’t count. You can shoot out all the squid ink you want but the facts are clear.
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The Donald shooting out squid ink. There should be a gif for that.
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Trump’s go-to response:
“So, I knew you were going to ask me that question,” Trump said in response. “You know what I’ll say? I don’t talk about that anymore.”
And nitpickers will dig dig dig till they find every little half of a gnat’s ass to hash hash and rehash. jesus fuckin’ christ who gives a shit about this?