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Once out of office and after shutting down his groundbreaking blog that was used as a communications venue, former United States President Donald Trump has lost much of his ability to drive the daily national political conversation.
But he still has a phone!
And that means that you can, whenever you want, call friendly media to comment on your latest, uhm… observations on the state of the country and the world.
That's what he did Wednesday night when he spoke to Fox News's Sean Hannity about, well, everything.
These are the strangest phrases he said.
1. 'Well, I think overall, we didn't get anything. We gave Russia a great stage and got nothing. "
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This is Trump's analysis of President Joe Biden's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Which is somewhat ironic because when Trump met Putin in Helsinki in 2018, he undermined the US intelligence community by saying that "both sides" were to blame for Russia interfering in the 2016 elections. And there go!
2. «And in the performing arts, you will see how several people performed, that is, the two people. And you have to form your own judgment. It is not for me to say.
He literally said "we have nothing."
Also, "scenic art?"
3. “I think it was a good day for Russia. I don't see what we get out of it.
But isn't it "not up to me to say it."
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4. “Look, for five years, from the day I went down the escalators [from Trump Tower, to announce my candidacy], we've been under investigation and it turned out to be all false. It was a terrible thing with 'Russia, Russia, Russia', which actually made dealing with Russia difficult. '
To be clear here: Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not conclude that the allegations against Trump and his 2016 campaign were "all bogus." This is exactly what Mueller wrote: “(I) f we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit an obstruction of justice, we would declare it. Based on the facts and the applicable legal norms, we cannot reach that judgment […] Consequently, although this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him either.
5. «And now there are up to 19 different things that they accused us of, and it turned out to be absolutely false, whether it is the Wuhan laboratory, the old Wuhan laboratory. When I mentioned that, it was like a firestorm. Hydroxychloroquine, now they're getting rave reviews on that. "
While the Biden administration said that there is a possibility that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, neither he nor anyone in the scientific community has said that this is where the virus definitely originated.
Trump's claims about the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in fighting COVID-19 appear to stem from a false reading of Dr. Anthony Fauci's emails.
6. «But everything is coming to light. I think people get it. I think that, in many ways, we are now stronger than ever. They understand that deception and the horror that these people put this country through. It's really very sad, actually.
Strong.
But also sad.
7. "But literally, from the day of that wonderful trip down the escalators, from that moment on, [they did] investigation after investigation."
Trump's fascination with a 15-second ride up a Trump Tower escalator is riveting and utterly bizarre.
8. «But you know what? I left that up to the DOJ [Department of Justice]. I left that up to the people who run the DOJ. And I did not participate ».
LOL.
Then-White House attorney Don McGahn testified under oath last week that Trump told him to rely on former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Mueller.
Then-White House Secretary General Mark Meadows was emailing the Trump administration attorney general asking him to investigate a conspiracy theory that Italian satellites had switched votes from Trump to Biden.
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9. “Everyone is still waiting for Durham, what happened to Durham? How was that allowed to happen to another administration? It's just shocking. "
The John Durham investigation, which investigates the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, is ongoing.
We know little about it, other than that Durham and his team spent $ 1.5 million on the research between October 2020 and March 2021.
10. “But hopefully now you have a Secretary of Justice who will be fair. But I will say that the people who are running for justice, and the people in it, don't forget, you have tens of thousands of people, and Obama put them there. "
The people who oversaw the creation of the Durham investigation and the timeline of its progress were ALL appointed by Trump.
11. “There was so much guilt and something so horrible happened. They were spying on my campaign. You know, if you think about it, all the time, almost at the beginning, when I […] when I made a statement that my campaign was spied on, it was one of the most important moments. No one could believe it.
[Voice of the narrator] It was not like that.
12. «Then it turned out that they spied on me more than, much worse than spying. But they did nothing about it. And for me, that is something terrible for our country.
Not again.
13. «How many Chevrolet are being sold in Berlin? Not too many. How many Chevrolet are being sold in Paris? Not too many. Perhaps none.
Trump was criticizing the lack of reciprocity of certain countries in the sale of American products here.
But for the record, from what I could find, there were more than 200,000 Chevrolets registered in Germany, in 2019. In the first half of the last decade, approximately 20,000 Chevrolets were sold in France per year.
Both numbers are greater than "neither."
14. “And then the pandemic hit us. And no one did as good a job with the pandemic as we did.
In an October 2020 CNN poll, 6 out of 10 Americans disapproved of the way Trump and his administration had handled the coronavirus pandemic.
Then …
15. “I got along very well with [Putin]. Nobody was tougher on Russia, he would say that. But nobody was tougher on Russia.
Just a reminder: the Mueller report, as well as the Senate Intelligence Committee, concluded that Russia meddled in the election to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton because they believed the billionaire businessman would be in their best interests.
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16. “I think we had, you know, a great opportunity to have an amazing relationship with Russia. It could have been fantastic. It could have really been beneficial for both countries.
Well, aside from the myriad human rights abuses,
ransomware
attacks,
and interference in an American election and then lying about it ...
17. "They are making windmills everywhere to ruin our land and kill our birds, to kill everything."
Trump is consistent on very, very few things.
His hatred for windmills is one of them.
18. "The money of Russia, US $ 3.5 million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow, the former mayor of Moscow."
Trump appears to be referring here to an allegation that a Hunter Biden-affiliated company received $ 3.5 million, in 2014, from the wife of the late Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.
Biden has denied it.
CNN fact-checkers call the claim "false."
19. «We no longer have a fair and free press. Whether you like it or not, and I hate to tell you, because you are a great believer in the press despite what happens, but we no longer have a free and fair press.
Oh yeah, he did tell Sean Hannity, model of free and independent media.
20. "Now when you look at China, and you look at the military apparatus, in which I was really doing a great job."
"Great job," you say?
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21. «I really hope and I think it was an accident, it was incompetence. I guess some people don't necessarily agree with that. They think maybe it had a purpose, which would be absolutely terrible. "
This is Trump floating the conspiracy theory that covid-19 was intentionally released from a laboratory in Wuhan.
Hannity, in case you're wondering, didn't criticize him for that.
Oh, weren't you wondering?
Voucher.
22. “Look, countries have been destroyed for what they did, whether by accident or not. And I hope it was an accident. I hope it was due to incompetence or accident.
Look up…
23. “I can tell you from personal experience, Canada is very, very tough. Canada is as tough as anyone. '
Blame Canada.
24. "Now Canada treats this country very, very badly."
I can't help but think that Justin Trudeau's shiny mane has something to do with this.
Somehow.
25. “And surprisingly, we were supposed to win easily with 64 million votes, and we got 75 million votes, and we didn't win. But let's see what happens with that.
Joe Biden got 81 million votes.
26. «You know, they talk about me with Russia, I get along well with Putin. I had a good relationship with Putin. But I was very hard.
Yes, yes, you already did.
27. "So I am very honored to say that my endorsement means more than any endorsement anyone has received."
More than anyone?
!!?
Well, at least he's "honored" to say so.
28. "So, I'm working on [the elections] on 22, getting a lot of good senators and many good congressmen to be elected."
* Mitch McConnell grimaces *.
29. "But if you look at the numbers, people like me more than ever."
Can you imagine saying this prayer out loud?
Also, it is not getting any more popular.
30. “I am besieged. I agree with you on that.
Yes, it feels like a good thing to end.
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