Are you denying these quotes or just in denial?
I never denied them. I’d like some dates, places and context. My biggest beef is this OP hit and run crap where they just throw up links to Townhall or somewhere else they can find some fool that agrees with them.
If you’re going to post a thread to discuss, then start out some kind of opinion about what you’re pointing. To do otherwise (which if OFTEN done) is pure cowardly manipulation that benefits some ingrained bias. Like it or not it happens.
Denial has nothing to do with it.
Similar quotes can be found for Reagan.
Similar quotes can be found for Winston Churchill.
The quotes prove, beyond a doubt, that if you diligently comb through the records of a public persona over many decades, you can finds some instances in which they said some dumb things off the cuff, and changed their mind later.
Cognitive dissonance. Trump is like the husband who is cheated on his wife (a mean this not literally as I understand his fans say he is very gallant, didn’t run around with Marla when he was married to Ivana or cheat on Marla in turn, and his third wife wasn’t a nude model), is cheating, and will cheat again. We’re the friends trying to tell the wife he’s not faithful. The wife, however, doesn’t believe her eyes or her experiences. She believes her dreams.