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GOP lawmaker says he’s never heard Trump lie

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CNN host Anderson Cooper put Ohio Representative Jim Jordan in the hot seat Monday night, grilling the conservative lawmaker on the topic of whether he'd ever heard President Donald Trump lie. After trying to deflect the question, Jordan eventually shook his head and said, "I have not."
"I've never heard the president... He's always been square with me, that's for darn sure," Jordan said when asked if he'd heard Trump make false claims. When Cooper pressed the lawmaker on whether Trump had said untrue things to the public, Jordan attempted to deflect the question, hesitating over his answer, and then said, "I don't know of it. Nothing comes to mind."

Cooper then brought up the widely circulated compendium of the president's lies, published by The Washington Post. Jordan said he had not seen the article.

The two had been involved in a discussion about Former FBI Director James Comey when the exchange took place, specifically referring to Comey's claim that Trump is a "serial liar" who is "morally unfit" to be president. Jordan didn't hesitate to call Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, a liar.

"So you're very bold in calling out Andrew McCabe, not so bold on the president of the United States," Cooper said.
 
Floridafan said:
CNN host Anderson Cooper put Ohio Representative Jim Jordan in the hot seat Monday night, grilling the conservative lawmaker on the topic of whether he'd ever heard President Donald Trump lie. After trying to deflect the question, Jordan eventually shook his head and said, "I have not."
"I've never heard the president... He's always been square with me, that's for darn sure," Jordan said when asked if he'd heard Trump make false claims. When Cooper pressed the lawmaker on whether Trump had said untrue things to the public, Jordan attempted to deflect the question, hesitating over his answer, and then said, "I don't know of it. Nothing comes to mind."

Cooper then brought up the widely circulated compendium of the president's lies, published by The Washington Post. Jordan said he had not seen the article.

The two had been involved in a discussion about Former FBI Director James Comey when the exchange took place, specifically referring to Comey's claim that Trump is a "serial liar" who is "morally unfit" to be president. Jordan didn't hesitate to call Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, a liar.

"So you're very bold in calling out Andrew McCabe, not so bold on the president of the United States," Cooper said.
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Typical "Gotcha" interview. Cooper tries to pain a congressman into calling the president a liar. Then a naive reporter somewhere starts circulating the story. Then it winds up here so the TDS crowd can pile on.

No one who understand politics would expect an answer for such a question, and no honest interviewer would ask such a question unless it was to make partisan brownie points.
 
chuckiechan said:
Typical "Gotcha" interview. Cooper tries to pain a congressman into calling the president a liar. Then a naive reporter somewhere starts circulating the story. Then it winds up here so the TDS crowd can pile on.

No one who understand politics would expect an answer for such a question, and no honest interviewer would ask such a question unless it was to make partisan brownie points.
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Anderson Cooper is NOT your typical liber al democrat. He asked a question, which you like or not, and got an answer that was totally outrageous. This tells you the mindset of right wing republicans in Congress
 
Floridafan said:
CNN host Anderson Cooper put Ohio Representative Jim Jordan in the hot seat Monday night, grilling the conservative lawmaker on the topic of whether he'd ever heard President Donald Trump lie. After trying to deflect the question, Jordan eventually shook his head and said, "I have not."
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It's nice to see that congress is accommodating the deaf. Seriously though, Helen Keller could see that Trump is a pathological liar.
 
chuckiechan said:
Typical "Gotcha" interview. Cooper tries to pain a congressman into calling the president a liar. Then a naive reporter somewhere starts circulating the story. Then it winds up here so the TDS crowd can pile on.

No one who understand politics would expect an answer for such a question, and no honest interviewer would ask such a question unless it was to make partisan brownie points.
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It's not a gotcha question to ask if you've ever heard the president lie. We know he has lied NUMEROUS times.

A gotcha question would be asking about a particular situation where he either misled, misspoke, etc. if he lied.

What you guys HATE is anything negative of Trump or his supporters come to light.
 
Praxas said:
It's not a gotcha question to ask if you've ever heard the president lie. We know he has lied NUMEROUS times.

A gotcha question would be asking about a particular situation where he either misled, misspoke, etc. if he lied.

What you guys HATE is anything negative of Trump or his supporters come to light.
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Has he ever told the truth?
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
It's nice to see that congress is accommodating the deaf. Seriously though, Helen Keller could see that Trump is a pathological liar.
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Or at least made out to look like a pathological liar.

And yes, a great deal of distrust in the biased news (political propagandist) media.

Only position left is to not believe anyone, and to be skeptical of everything, which is where I've been at for quite a number of months.
 
chuckiechan said:
Typical "Gotcha" interview. Cooper tries to pain a congressman into calling the president a liar. Then a naive reporter somewhere starts circulating the story. Then it winds up here so the TDS crowd can pile on.

No one who understand politics would expect an answer for such a question, and no honest interviewer would ask such a question unless it was to make partisan brownie points.
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Unless of course the president is a serial liar, and that is in fact newsworthy. Just saying...
 
eohrnberger said:
Or at least made out to look like a pathological liar.

And yes, a great deal of distrust in the biased news (political propagandist) media.

Only position left is to not believe anyone, and to be skeptical of everything, which is where I've been at for quite a number of months.
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Publishing Trump's words when he's not telling the truth is just unfair, I tell you. It makes him look like a liar. We should only publish his words when he is telling the truth. Or, perhaps we shouldn't repeat his words at all.

Come to think of it, not repeating his lies and not repeating his words are just about the same thing.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Publishing Trump's words when he's not telling the truth is just unfair, I tell you. It makes him look like a liar. We should only publish his words when he is telling the truth. Or, perhaps we shouldn't repeat his words at all.

Come to think of it, not repeating his lies and not repeating his words are just about the same thing.
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If you believe that the news (political propaganda) media has been even remote fair or even handed to Trump, you are living in an alternative reality.

Sure, there are times when he steps in it, and should be called out for it.
But the media only running negative coverage of Trump and editorially ignoring the positive stories reveals exactly how biased, political agenda pushing, and down right dishonest they really are.
 
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