Trump Claims He Did Not Reject A Meeting With Gaetz | Talking Points Memo

Former President Trump issued a defensive statement late Monday denying CNN’s report that he recently rejected Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) request to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago amid the Florida congressman’s blossoming scandal. 


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So, if I understand correctly, the story that he’s refused to meet with Gaetz is a lie. And, he’s not meeting with Gaetz.

Okay.

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Congenital liar supports statement of pathological liar that news agency lied abut his presumed lies.

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Such an insignificant anecdote, one that will be forgotten immediately when the actual charges against Gaetz are made public.

Makes one wonder: why the big effort in Trumpworld to push back so hard on this reporting and turn it into a Big Deal?

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Fucking degenerate tweens

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Also, he didn’t not pardon Masty in response to a request for a pardon that didn’t happen.

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Sounds like somebody (possibly named Don Gaetz) made a contribution to someone’s legal slush fund (possibly called Save America PAC).

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There’s a saying - If you’re explaining the existence or non-existence of a meeting between serial apex sexual predators your losing.

The saying might be Fake News.

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I wonder if we should start insinuating that Trump and Co harbor a “Deep Throat” amongst them?

If I’m parsing this correctly Trump is saying he didn’t reject a meeting with Matt, but doesn’t reject that his staff rejected a meeting with Matt. And I think the same thing is true of Matt wanting a blanket pardon.

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Deflect and distract.

For reference, the RW media is going full attack mode on what appears to be a simple mistaken reporting (see here).

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Is there a reason that TPM (or ANYONE) would even be reporting this? I mean honestly WHO CARES?

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Is his “fiancee” in a hostage situation? Why else would she vacation with him?

Politico reported that Joel Greenberg was in a “panic” just days before the federal indictment on 33 different charges including identity theft, financial crimes and sex trafficking.

In a chat with a friend who later discussed the messages with Politico, the former Seminole County tax collector referred to the unidentified young woman as “Vintage 99,” a name with her birth year that she reportedly used online.

“I’m having to pay for vintage 99 to retain [a] lawyer,” Greenberg wrote in the chat, saying federal agents “contacted her and are wanting her to talk,” Politico reported. “She doesn’t want to talk to them,” he added.

Greenberg has been charged and Gaetz is under investigation for alleged sex trafficking involving women, including “Vintage 99,” who was 17 at the time of the targeted activities. She’s now 20. It’s not illegal for Greenberg to pay the lawyer’s fees of a potential witness against him, but it could “raise questions,” Politico noted.

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Questions, I have a few.

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Sounds like an episode of a badly written, and even more badly acted, soap opera…

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One can only imagine what such a meeting might have looked like.

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Can’t they just hurry up and indict Donnie?
Then, hopefully, his lawyer will shut him up.
If not, there’s at least the possibility his communications will become part of a superseding indictment.

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Ah. A California White.

Not as distinguished as a classic French vineyard, but respectable.

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So the credibly-accused rapist who brags about “grab 'em by the pussy” and paid six figures apiece to make a porn star and a centerfold model stay quiet is denying that he refused to meet with an accused sex trafficker of at least one minor, and the credibly-accused rapist’s spokesman who is a rub-and-tug enthusiast and deadbeat dad of a child conceived in an extramarital affair that took place during the credibly-accused rapist’s presidential campaign also says the accused sex trafficker never requested a meeting with the credibly-accused rapist in the first place.

Do I understand the story correctly?

ETA: And dammit, I forgot to mention that the accused sex trafficker’s own spokesman for denying the denial of a meeting appears to be a hobbit.

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Is this the same D.(AKA Dirtbag, Human Fecal Pellet, Scum) Trump who yesterday claimed that McConnell only won because of his endorsement and had never won by 20% before(both lies)? The D.(AKA Shithole, Scumbag, Fuckface) Trump who told over 10,000 distinct lies according to WaPo? Not that lying racist sexual predator D. (AKA Asswipe, Clownshit, Scumbag(repeat!) Trump? I mean he wouldn’t lie, would he?

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Most likely a Florida White, if the reporting is accurate.

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