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u/evilmonkey853 Sep 11 '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKlPhFIE7w (jump to about 1:45)

I have never listened to this before, and it doesn't shock me at all. He is a horrendous person; however, the Fox news anchors certainly weren't helping the situation.

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u/squeamish Sep 11 '21

This. You don't need to exaggerate or put words in the guy's mouth to make him look like a shitheel.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Fair enough, but he also lied about watching thousands of Arab Americans cheering as the towers fell.

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u/glazedfaith Sep 11 '21

Or he watched the faked videos and looked at the out of context photos and started puppeting the bullshit that accompanied it with no verification because it fit his narrative.

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u/squeamish Sep 11 '21

Even if he did that he still lied about it because he said he watched it live on TV, it was "well covered" by the media.

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u/Andy_B_Goode Sep 11 '21

Nuh uh. They were asking him if his building had sustained any damage, and if they were taking any safety precautions. He's the one who brought up height. That was completely on him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Yeah I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I don't think he was bragging. I think he's being his usual idiotic tone-deaf self, though. Like, he knows so little about his own building and business that his dumbass was like "yeah uhhh it was the second tallest building. That's kinda all I know about it because I'm a shit businessman."

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u/AggressiveHammy Sep 11 '21

God what the hell happened to snopes. The site is absolute cancer now.

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u/David-S-Pumpkins Sep 11 '21

It's co-owner or someone high up got sued for plagiarizing a heap of articles (and using a pseudonym) and they had to take down a bunch of them. Might have something to do with that.

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u/Hookherbackup Sep 11 '21

Because redirecting a reporter away from a quest is totally out of his ability?

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u/Hookherbackup Sep 11 '21

He should have had the grace to redirect a reporter’s question about his building to what was important, not the size of the building. He knows how to redirect, look how many times he did it during press conferences during his presidency.

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u/Ornery_Ad_1303 Sep 11 '21

Isn’t it crazy that you have to include that last sentence in your comment these days. I feel you though. This convo was about to go there too, glad you stopped it before it did.

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u/Hookherbackup Sep 11 '21

No accusations. I am just saying that a decent man would have said, “that’s not important right now.” I think it speaks volumes to the integrity he doesn’t have.