.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump finds a new way to falsely claim exoneration in Russia scandal.
If Donald Trump is an innocent in the Russia scandal as he claims, it’s odd that he keeps lying about the ways in which he’s been exonerated.
In Trump’s mind, there’s no difference between a judge saying, “This case is unrelated to Russian collusion,” and, “This case proves there was no Russian collusion.” In June 2018, Trump said the Justice Department inspector general’s office had “totally” exonerated him in the Russia scandal. That was both wrong and kind of bonkers.
Also in February 2019, after Michael Cohen’s public congressional testimony, Trump said his former fixer agreed that there was no collusion. In reality, what Cohen testified was that he didn’t have any direct evidence of cooperation between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign, though Cohen added that he believes Trump is “capable” of having committed the crime.
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