Trump is telling people the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape was faked — even though he admitted it was real in 2016
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1 He admires Moore's brazen lies. He wishes he'd lied like Moore.
2) He knows there're more tapes out there and is figuring out how to handle them when they come out.
3) He knows his cult and Fox News will back literally anything he wants them to. If Don the Con says the moon is made of green cheese, Hannity will say he's had moon cheese and it's the best he's ever eaten. He could hold a rally and his cultists would chant, We want moon cheese! Trump: Whatta you want? Cult: Moon cheese!
Cultists: When your Lord tells you the Access Hollywood tape you heard and recognized and he admitted to was a fake, you WILL pretend to believe him. Pretending to believe stuff you know is a lie is how you MAGA.
President Trump Now Says That Wasn’t Him on Access Hollywood Tape
By Benjamin Hart@realaxelfoleyShareShareTweetPin ItEmailCommentPrint
It wasn’t me. Photo: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images
A New York Times piece published on Saturday delves into President Trump’s un-shocking decision to endorse U.S. Senate candidate and alleged sexual predator Roy Moore over the fierce objections of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — whose brilliant plan was to subvert democracy by getting Governor Kay Ivey to delay the election.
Like Moore, Trump has been accused of sexual assault by several women, and like Moore, he has refused to budge an inch on the question of his innocence. As the Times reveals, though, Trump has gone way beyond mere denials. He has taken to contesting objective reality itself:
But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)
So now, Trump not only is insisting that the lies he spouts all day are true, but also has created a new set of facts that contradict the ones he has already acknowledged. But hey, who are you going to believe, President Trump or your lying ears?
The fact that for about 38 percent of the country the answer is “President Trump” is almost as disturbing as the possibility that the president may be more mentally unfit for office than most people acknowledge.
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