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The article says that the statement at issue occurred during a portion of the discussion that the paper agreed was off the record. So now they go around leaking and likely muscharacterizing what Trump said in order to damage him or, in the alternative, create pressure on him to authorize releasing the transcript. This is sleazy, yellow journalism of the worst kind. Pathetic.
I don’t get the controversy.
Why wouldn’t Trump release the tape (or transcript) and make this go away?
It seems pretty easily resolved.
I have no copy of the tape or the transcript but Ben Smith told reporters off the record he enjoys sex with small children and farm animals.