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muriel_volestrangler

(101,144 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2019, 10:01 AM Oct 2019

Trump is such a child, he has ordered the official transcript to use " liddle' "

complete with single Trump-hyphen, or apostrophe to the literate world:

But the whistleblower wrote not that conversation. He wrote a vicious conversation. In other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest. And this country has to find out who that person was, because that person is a spy, in my opinion.

Are you ready? So, when a whistleblower, purposely or not, gives something that’s totally erroneous — now, here’s where I fooled them. They never thought I’d release the conversation. They never thought in a million years that I’d release the conversation.

When “Liddle'” Adam Schiff saw the text, when he read it, he couldn’t believe it. When Nancy Pelosi, who worked a day early — Nancy Pelosi called for essentially impeachment — “Let’s impeach the President” — before she saw the transcript. And this is an exact word-for-word transcript of the conversation, right? Taken by very talented stenographers.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-niinisto-republic-finland-bilateral-meeting/

They (more "very talented stenographers" ) have tried to preserve some idea that they have a basic understanding of grammar, by putting quotation marks around it, but the apostrophe is in there.

Either that, or they've written it that way to take the piss out of Trump.

Via The Rude Pundit, whose write-up "Trump's Madness Today By the Numbers" is well worth reading.
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