I mean, my cats have taken shits that are more eloquent than this assmunch. Better looking, too.
Trump: 'I
can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president and you’re not'
By Louis Nelson
In a wide-ranging interview with Time Magazine, Donald Trump defended
his prior controversial statements on wiretapping, voter fraud and an array of
other issues, claiming that he has ultimately been proven right time and time
again.
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be
right,” Trump told Time’s Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer in an
interview conducted Wednesday and published Thursday morning. “I tend to be
right. I’m an instinctual person, I happen to be a person that knows how life
works.”
To support his claim, Trump pointed to his
prediction that Britain would vote to leave the European Union, his insistence
that NATO member states meet their defense spending obligations when “nobody
knew that they weren’t paying” and his shocking victory in the presidential
election itself as proof that he is often proven right.
But Trump also pointed to more dubious examples, including his
mysterious reference during a February rally to some unspecified event that
happened “last night in Sweden” when nothing had happened in the Scandinavian
country the night before. The White House later sought to clarify that Trump
had been speaking generally about rising crime in Sweden, not a specific event,
but in his Time interview, Trump said he had been vindicated by riots that
broke out in the Swedish capital two days after his “last night” remark.
Trump's interview took place Wednesday shortly after
House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) made his
announcement that he had obtained information that members of Trump’s
transition team had been under inadvertent government surveillance after last
year’s presidential election.
Trump seized on those remarks, telling his interviewer “that
means I’m right” about his claim that former President Barack Obama had ordered
a wiretap of Trump Tower.
But Nunes himself said his new information did not corroborate
Trump’s allegation and the president seemingly bristled when the Time
interviewer pointed out that the House Intelligence Committee chairman’s
description of incidental collection would mean that it was not transition team
members who had been under surveillance.
“Who know what it is?” Trump said.
Trump also stuck to his guns on his claim that millions
of people voted illegally in last year’s elections, ballots that he has said
cost him the popular vote. Neither Trump nor any other White House official has
offered proof for the allegation, which he has stated previously not as a
theory but as a fact.
“Well I think I will be proved right about that too,” Trump said
when asked about his claims of illegal voting, promising that form a commission
on the “very serious problem.” “Well now if you take a look at the votes, when
I say that, I mean mostly they register wrong, in other words, for the votes,
they register incorrectly, and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have
tremendous numbers of people.”
Trump was unapologetic about one of his most outlandish claims,
made during the GOP primary, that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father had been somehow
involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. He was
similarly unwilling to back away from claims made by the White House citing Fox
News contributor Andrew Napolitano, who has been pulled off the air by the
conservative network following his allegation that the British government
surveilled Trump Tower at Obama’s behest.
Trump told Time he had only been “quoting highly respected
people from highly respected television networks.”
“That’s the story,” Trump said as the interview ended. “Hey
look, in the meantime, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m
president, and you’re not. You know.”
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