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This was actual testimony by Michael Cohen in one of the cases he testified in. Either the Trump or case org the stormy Daniels case
I don't think it was Cohen who said it. This article fro 2016 suggests it was Pat McGahn in a 1993 deposition during the Trump Plaza bankruptcy case.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/trumps-lawyer-we-met-with-him-in-pairs-to-avoid-lies
Ooo, good work!
So he just says whatever he needs to say at the moment to rationalize whatever result he wants.
That helps explain why Republicans love him so much I guess.
He’s like if immersive, self-indulgent self-delusion were a drug you could do just by turning on the tv. A modern religion around solipsism.
I tried to find a link but my Bing-Fu is weak.
I tried to look, too, but it was from a few years ago, and my results are flooded with articles about more recent Trump lies and lying lawyers, since he does it pretty much constantly.
I'd like to take a moment to highlight how much a problem this is. It feels like stuff is getting memory-holed not even on purpose, but because search engines aren't good at letting people filter by date range etc.
We're talking about Trump here. There was a list of 10,000 lies he told while he was in office.
At least 10,000 because the article is from 2019
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-has-made-10000-false-and-misleading-claims-washington-post-fact-checker-145444166.html
Upvoted for not using Google.