Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.

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David Fahrenthold Retweeted:

False? Misleading? How to characterize Trump’s 4,200 factually inaccurate claims has become its own battle. But this week’s guilty plea by Cohen offers indisputable evidence of a lie: "Trump and his allies have been deliberately dishonest at every turn."

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WSJ reports Michael Cohen’s father Maurice Cohen, a Holocaust survivor, told his son not to protect the president, saying he didn’t survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Trump

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Fact Checker Analysis

Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.

By Glenn Kessler
The Fact Checker
August 22 at 8:57 PM

The first denial that Donald Trump knew about hush-money payments to silence women came four days before he was elected president, when his spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, without hedging, “We have no knowledge of any of this.”

The second came in January of this year, when his attorney Michael Cohen said the allegations were “outlandish.” By March, two of the president’s spokesmen — Raj Shah and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — said publicly that Trump denied all the allegations and any payments. Even Cohen’s attorney, David Schwartz, got in on the action, saying the president “was not aware of any of it.”

In April, Trump finally weighed in, answering a question about whether he knew about a payment to porn star Stephanie Clifford, who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, with a flat “no.” ... It’s now clear that the president’s statement was a lie — and that the people speaking for him repeated it.
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Epilogue

Aug. 22: In a Fox News interview, Trump sought to reframe the issue. He insisted that the payments had not been a “campaign violation.” The payments “didn’t come out of the campaign,” he said. “They came from me.” ... After months of denial and deception, Trump was still not telling the truth.

Glenn Kessler has reported on domestic and foreign policy for more than three decades. Send him statements to fact check by [link:[email protected]|emailing him], tweeting at him, or sending him a message on Facebook. Follow https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP

[dchill]

1. Stock in trade.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[procon]

3. The unrelenting drip, drip, drip of Trump's lies is accumulating.

Maybe, at long last, his lies and incompetence at starting to gather some public attention that will penetrate the skulls of his followers.

[marble falls]

4. I didn't survive the Holcaust to have my name sullied by Trump. Powerful stuff.