I went through Trump’s answers to Pirro’s, um, polite questions. The best lines from the President are below.
1. “So, we have a humanitarian crisis, to put it mildly. People are trying to get in by the tens of thousands.”
And away we go!
2. “But there’s another big one forming.”
3. “I’d rather see the Democrats come back from their vacation and act.”
4. “I was willing to do something and we’re asking for $5.6 billion, which is way less than what other presidents have been talking about.”
It’s not at all clear to me who Trump is referring to here. No past president has said we need to build a wall along our southern border. Trump’s pledge to do so is what made him stand out in the 2016 GOP field.
5. “If you look at so many other things that I’ve done — we’re going well with a lot of — you know, we’re doing well with China. We’re doing well with North Korea. We’re doing — you know, I was left a very tough hand.”
I’d like to submit this as evidence to prove my Donald-Trump’s-public-remarks-are-just-one-long-stream-of-consciousness case, your honor.
6. “Well, I haven’t actually left the White House in months.”
7. “And in all fairness, I’m doing a lot of other work.”
Yeah, I mean, fair is fair.
8. “But basically, I’ve been here for many months in the White House.”
Again, no.
9. “And we got very little credit. Like even you — you just said they won, we won the Senate. We actually picked up additional seats.”
10. “I have to say a lot of the people that aren’t getting their checks are letting us know we don’t care, you’ve got to solve the crisis at the border.”
Serious question: How does Trump know this? Are federal workers emailing him somehow? Is he running into them while walking around Washington? Or possibly, is he just, you know, saying it?
11. “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written. And if you read the article, you’d see that they found absolutely nothing.”
12. “It’s called ‘The failing New York Times’ for a reason, they’ve gotten me wrong for three years.”
13. “If you ask the folks in Russia, I’ve been tougher on Russia than anybody else, any other — probably any other president period, but certainly the last three or four presidents, modern-day presidents.”
14.”And ‘The New York Times’ is a disaster as a paper.”
15. “I would, I don’t with care. I mean, I had a conversation like every president does. You sit with the president of various countries. I do it with all countries.”
16. “I’m not keeping anything under wraps, I couldn’t care less.”
17. “These people make it up. ‘Washington Post,’ that’s basically the lobbyist for Amazon. You know, he uses that — Bezos has got bigger problems than anybody right now. But Bezos uses that as his lobbyist, OK, as far as I’m concerned.”
18. “Think of it, I have a one-on-one meeting with Putin like I do with every other leader. I have many one-on-one — nobody ever says anything about it. But with Putin they say, ‘Oh, what did they talk about?'”
19. “We talked about very positive things because — look, we are beating everybody.”
20. “But I meet with Putin, and they make a big deal. Anybody could have listened to that meeting, that meeting is up for grabs.”
What? The meeting was purposely kept under very tight wraps by Trump who insisted, against the advice of some of his aides, to sit down one-on-one with Putin. I truly have no idea what Trump means here. Like, none.
21. “You know, the whole Russia thing, it’s a hoax. It’s a terrible hoax.”
22. “And everybody knows there was no collusion whatsoever. They have found no collusion, and they won’t find collusion because I had nothing to do…”
23. “I was obviously a good candidate. I won every debate. I won everything I did, and I won, and I won easily.”
The 2016 election ended 797 days ago. The 2020 election is in 659 days.
24. “Well, I guess I have good genes…”
That’s Trump’s response this “question” from Pirro: “What keeps you going? I mean, you’ve got such fight in you, it is unbelievable.”
25. “And, you know, they say this should never happen again. Never again should this happen. And that’s the story.”
Who is “they?” And what should never happen again? And, no, it is not at all obvious what the answer to these questions are when reading the full transcript.
26. “We’ve done more than any other administration by far in the first two years.”
27. “It doesn’t matter because if I’m a very honest person, frankly.”
28. “But he should give information maybe on his father-in-law, because that’s the one that people want to look at. Because where does that money — that’s the money in the family. And I guess he didn’t want to talk about his father — he’s trying to get his sentence reduced.”
In which the President of the United States defames a private citizen with zero actual evidence solely because that person happens to be Michael Cohen’s father-in-law.
29. “I don’t know, but you’ll find out, and you’ll look into it because nobody knows what’s going on over there.”
In response to Pirro asking Trump for the name of Cohen’s father-in-law (Sidebar: Wildly inappropriate) Trump responds this way. “You’ll find out.” Truly jaw-dropping stuff.
30. “They broke into his law firm sometime early in the morning, I guess, and they took — this couldn’t happen to anybody except you’re dealing with McCabe, you’re dealing with the remnants of Comey.”
31. “It’s all — it’s a hoax. It’s called the Russian hoax or witch, you know, it’s a witch hunt. And it’s a shame.”
32. “Mexico is absolutely paying for the wall.”
33. “You know, to be totally honest with you — I mean, your audience know I’m a straight shooter.”
34. “They’re going to want something from me someday, very important, because I have to sign everything. Everything has to go through the White House.”
“I have to sign everything.” The President truly possesses a deep knowledge of how government works.
35. “They’re going to want something from us for one of their favorite little deals. And all of a sudden, they’re going to find out it’s going to be very, very tough for them.”
This feels like a very good place to end.
Source : CNN
