Posted on 09/23/2016 4:51:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
He apparently lied under oath to deny he associated with organized crime figures.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters via ZUMA Press Last week, media coverage of Donald Trump may have hit an inflection point, when major news outlets, while covering Trump's latest birther shenanigans, characterized the GOP presidential nominee's remarks as a lie. Though Trump has scored more pants-on-fire false statements than any other candidate in this campaign, mainstream news outlets have struggled over whether and how to use the L-word when reporting on him. With this birther-driven breakthrough in coverage, there now remain plenty of brazenly untrue assertions—deliberate lies or not—uttered by Trump that warrant close examination. One topic ripe for such scrutiny is Trump's associations with organized crime. For years during his business career, Trump worked or associated with proven or alleged mobsters. (Trump's longtime lawyer, the thuggish and deceased Roy Cohn, repped numerous Mafia bosses, some of whom were connected to Trump projects.) Yet when asked about his links to the mob, Trump has repeatedly made false comments and has contradicted himself—to such a degree it seems he has flat-out lied about these relationships, even when he was under oath.
Isn’t the author talking about the Clinton Crime Family?
Desperation time beginning to set in for the libs.
Anyone thinks this glop of mud will stick, this hail mary pass? I don’t.
I’m beginning to get used to the sweet smell of Absolute Liberal Panic.
Maybe I’ll see if I can get someone to make a hanging car air-freshener with that sweet aroma.
David Corn is certifiable along with mother jonesy.
Anyone carrying on a sizable business in that area in that era had to give mordida to the mob or be destroyed. Not sure how this would equate to what they are accusing Donald of.
He smoked. I’m verklempt.
It won’t stick, because that’s not where Donald is now.
We might want to ask these soi disant do-gooders about their associations with wanton trouble makers NOW.
He should have given a very definite answer such as: "I don't recall."
There has been a rash of articles recently attempting to establish some Trump dishonesty, trying to lessen the undeniable reality that Hillary has been a pathological liar for decades.
Hillary definitely will give you the highest quality bull shit. If Trump did lie, he’d be pretty clumsy.
Roy Cohn was in on the alien conspiracy with the Cigarette Smoking Man.
Coincidence that Cohn was Trump’s lawyer? I think not.
Come join us while hysterical liberals throw sh** up against the wall.
David Corn is a joke.
THIS IS JUST DUMP ON TRUMP TIME .. DON’T EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO THESE CLOWNS.
This just shows how desperate the Democratic Party Hillary Kook Aid drinkers are.
Demeaning by showing how Trump treats women (Rosie O'Donnell)
Demeaning by showing how Trump is connected to the mob (Plumbers Union, Cement contractors, Casinos) Anyone who does business on the East Coast especially knows you have to deal with the mobs...and Hillary knows that, they are on her payroll...
This is just the Clinton Machine, she has nothing else, and if I were Trump Monday night, I have every rape and abused victim of Bill's and all of the family members of the Benghazi families there, right in front of her!!!
She is a pig, she's evil, vile and a dead corpse, someone should put her back in her coffin and nail it shut with a ‘Blessed Cross’ on top so she can't ever get out again!!!
Newsweek is just out claiming that Trump lied in a debate and lied under oath about looking into Florida casino gambling some ten years ago.
But when you read the story, there’s no lie there at all.
or Harry Reid
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