Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
President Trump claimed that his intelligence chiefs told him that they were misquoted when they publicly contradicted him during public on-camera testimony, CNN reports.
Said Trump: “They said they were totally misquoted and totally taken out of context. They said it was fake news.”
He made this argument even though a full report and recordings of the testimony are publicly available.
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