Is Trump Lying About Roger Stone And Russia?

DURING DONALD TRUMP'S PRESS CONFERENCE HE MENTIONED THE
RUSSIAN STORY, HE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT -- PEOPLE CONNECTED TO
YOU IN THE CAMPAIGN AND BUSINESS INTERESTS YOU MIGHT HAVE WERE
APPARENTLY TALKING TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, HOW DO YOU
FEEL ABOUT THAT AND RESPOND TO IT?
ONCE YOU GET PAST THE
AVALANCHE OF FAKE NEWS THAT HE CRIED OUT EVEN THOUGH HE ALLEGES
IT WAS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, HE CALLS IT DISCREDITED AS YOU WILL
SEE, BUT IT NEVER WAS -- HE JUST MADE THAT PART UP -- LET ME READ
YOU ONE OF HIS QUOTES AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT HE SAID ABOUT ONE
OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT I WILL SHOW YOU THE REALITY.
HE SAID
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO ANSWER THIS?
RUSSIA IS A RUSE, I
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA, I HAVEN'T MADE A PHONE CALL TO
RUSSIA IN YEARS, I DON'T SPEAK TO PEOPLE IN RUSSIA, NOT THAT I
WOULDN'T, I JUST HAVE NO ONE TO SPEAK TO.
I HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH RUSSIA.
TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, NO PERSON IDEA WITH
DOES.
AS JOHN HAS POINTED OUT DURING OUR COVERAGE OF THIS
PRESS CONFERENCE, HE JUST SPOKE TO PUTIN TWO WEEKS AGO.
YOU
HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO ANYONE IN RUSSIA IN YEARS?
OKAY, CHALK IT
UP TO HE'S A CHILD, HE JUST FORGOT OR DOESN'T COUNT THAT, HE
MEANS I DIDN'T SPEAK TO ANYONE IN RUSSIA ABOUT ILLICIT
ACTIVITIES.
BUT AT THE END HE SAID TO THE BEST OF MY
KNOWLEDGE, BY THE WAY THAT'S LAWYERLY TALK, EVEN THIS CHILD
NEW TO PUT THAT IN THERE BECAUSE HE HAS TO BE CAREFUL, TO THE
BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE NO PERSON IDEA WITH DOES.
BUT WAIT A
MINUTE, THERE WERE FOUR PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
STORY, MANAFORT, FLYNN, AND ONE OTHER BUSINESS AND POLITICAL
FRIEND HE HAS THAT I THINK MIGHT BE IMPORTANT TO THIS WHOLE
PROCEEDINGS, AND THEN ROGER STONE.
STONE IS KNOWN FOR A LONG
TIME, AS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.
BUT LISTEN TO HIM DENY THAT NOT
ONLY DO THESE PEOPLE NOT TALK TO RUSSIA, ALTHOUGH HOW WOULD HE
KNOW THAT, BUT THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW THEM?
WAIT, YOU DON'T KNOW
ROGER STONE?
FIRST LET'S GIVE YOU TRUMP'S ANSWER.
>>THERE WAS A BIG FRONT-PAGE STORY YESTERDAY, AND IT WAS VERY
MUCH DISCREDITED AS YOU KNOW.
IT'S A JOKE.
AND THE PEOPLE
MENTIONED IN THE STORY, I NOTICED THEY WERE ON TV TODAY
SAYING THEY NEVER EVEN SPOKE TO RUSSIA.
THEY WERE EVEN A PART --
THEY WERE SUCH A MINOR PART, I DON'T THINK I'VE SPOKEN TO THEM,
ONE PERSON I DON'T THINK I EVER SPOKEN TO, AND HE SAID HE WAS A
LOW-LEVEL MEMBER OF I THINK A COMMITTEE FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF
TIME.
I DON'T THINK I EVER MET HIM.
IT'S POSSIBLE I WALKED INTO
A ROOM AND HE WAS SITTING THERE BUT I DON'T THINK I MET HIM.
I
DIDN'T TALK TO HIM EVER, AND HE THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE.
>>THE WAY HE SPEAKS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE WHAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT.
COULD HE BE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE OTHER THAN
ROGER STONE?
I SUPPOSE IT'S POSSIBLE.
HE SAID THE PEOPLE WHO
ARE ON TV TODAY -- OKAY, WHO WAS ON TV TODAY TALKING ABOUT THIS?
IF HE'S REFERRING TO ROGER STONE, THAT'S THE MOST BRAZEN
LIE I'VE EVER SEEN, BECAUSE ROGER STONE HAS BEEN INTEGRAL IN
HIS RISE.
IN FACT, WE HAVE FOOTAGE OF ONE OF OUR REPORTERS
DURING THE INAUGURATION, SHE RECORDED ROGER STONE TALKING
ABOUT HOW WELL HE KNOWS TRUMP.
LISTEN TO THE WHOLE STORY.
>>HOW DID YOU MEET DONALD TRUMP THE FIRST TIME?
>>THROUGH ROY COHN.
I WAS SENT TO NEW YORK TO WORK ON THE
REAGAN CAMPAIGN, THEY GAVE ME THIS FILE, REAGAN'S FRIENDS,
THERE WAS A PART IN THERE FOR ROY.
I WAS 25 YEARS OLD.
I JUST
CALLED HIM UP, I SAID I WANTED TO COME SEE YOU.
I SAID I NEED
TO ORGANIZE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR REAGAN, HE SAID
YOU NEED FRED TRUMP, FRED AND HIS SON DONALD, THEY ARE PERFECT
FOR THIS.
SO HE SET ME UP WITH DONALD AND THAT WAS IT.
>>HOW WAS DONALD THEN?
>>32 MAYBE.
NOT EVEN THAT.
THIS WOULD'VE BEEN 1979.
>>DID YOU FEEL LIKE HE WAS GOING SOMEWHERE?
YEAH?
IS IT TRUE WHAT
PEOPLE SAY, YOU CONVINCED HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT?
YES.
>>YOU CONVINCED HIM?
>>I STARTED IN 1988.
>>THAT IS TRUE.
>>YOU WERE THERE?
>>I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET HIM TO RUN FOR A LONG TIME.
HE COULD
HAVE BEATEN ROMNEY.
>>THIS IS INTERESTING, BECAUSE OF THE FOUR PEOPLE WHO HAD
CONTACT WITH RUSSIA, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, ONE OF
THEM IS MIKE FLYNN, HE CAN'T SAY HE DOESN'T KNOW HIM, HE WAS HIS
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
HE CAN'T SAY HE DOESN'T KNOW
MANAFORT.
THERE ARE TWO LEFT, CARTER PAIGE AND ROGER STONE.
IT'S UNCLEAR WHO HE WAS REFERRING TO, IF HE'S TALKING
ABOUT CARTER PAIGE THEY COULD INVESTIGATE THAT, BUT IF HE
MEANT ROGER STONE HE IS AN EVEN BIGGER LIAR THAN WE REALIZED.
BECAUSE THERE'S NO QUESTION HE KNOWS ROGER STONE REALLY WELL,
AS ROGER STONE JUST SHOWED YOU IN A RECORDING FROM THE
INAUGURATION.
AND BY THE WAY, WE DIDN'T BREAK THAT STORY -- IT'S
AN INTERESTING TAPE AND I'M GLAD WE GOT IT ON TAPE -- BUT THEIR
CONNECTION GOES BACK DECADES AND THAT'S WELL KNOWN.
IF HE'S
DENYING THAT HE KNOWS ROGER STONE, WOW.
THAT'S AMAZING,
THAT'S LIKE SAYING I'VE NEVER MET MY WIFE, I DON'T KNOW
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
>>IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE, IF I KNEW HIM I WOULD DENY IT.
>>THAT GIVES US A SENSE OF HIS PATHOLOGY, IF HE SAYS HE'S NEVER
MET ROGER STONE, MAYBE HE WAS IN A ROOM WITH HIM ONCE -- THERE
ISN'T ANYTHING HE WOULDN'T LIE ABOUT.
AND I'M NOT SURE HE
UNDERSTANDS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LIE AND THE TRUTH.
>>AND I DON'T THINK HE UNDERSTANDS THE POTENTIAL
CONSEQUENCES.
THESE INVESTIGATIONS ARE ONGOING, THEY
ARE LOOKING AT THE TRANSCRIPTS AND TALKING TO PEOPLE, TRACKING
DOWN INFORMATION, AND EVERY DAY HE GOES OUT AND REPRESENTATIVES
OF HIS ADMINISTRATION GO OUT AND THEY SAY THINGS THAT ARE EASILY
VERIFIABLE, AND IT CAN BE SHOWN HE'S LYING.
AND YOU ARE JUST
HELPING TO BUILD THE CASE ON THE WEIRD CONNECTION BETWEEN YOUR
ADMINISTRATION AND RUSSIA.
AND HE'S DOING IT IN EVERY ONE OF
THESE PRESS CONFERENCES.
>>REAL QUICK QUESTION FOR ANYONE WHO GETS IN CONTACT WITH TRUMP,
IF ONE OF OUR REPORTERS DO -- DO YOU KNOW ROGER STONE?
IF HE SAYS
HE DOESN'T NO ROGER STONE, WHO IS NOW APPARENTLY CONNECTED TO
THESE RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, AND STONE DENIES THAT
BUT THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS GOOD EVIDENCE, IF HE SAYS HE DOESN'T
KNOW ROGER STONE THAT'S AMAZING AND GIVES YOU A SENSE OF
THE
PATHOLOGY.

Is Trump Lying About Roger Stone And Russia?

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