-President Trump has been lying about everything from Paul Manafort's convicting to a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook. For more on this, it's time for "A Closer Look." Last week, the President's former expedition chairwoman, Paul Manafort, was sentenced to 47 months in prisons for tax and bank hoax, which is much less than the 19 to 24 times attorneys recommended. And to vindicate the lax sentence, the judge in the case said something that didn't really add up. -The judge telling the court just moments ago that he believed that a sentence of 19 to 24 times, as was recommended by the prosecutors in this case, would be excessive for Paul Manafort. The judge then also said -- Let me read this for you here, Wolf. He said that Paul Manafort lived an otherwise blameless life. -Well ... if you take out all the stuff he's being blamed for, sure. I necessitate, Ted Bundy lived an otherwise blameless life.
And remember, this person ... This person right here stole millions of dollars, committed charge and bank hoax, and, in June, he went to jail for witness tampering, international crimes he perpetrated while he was on house arrest for a different crime. The nicest thing you can say about him is that he's great at multitasking. I gambled his cellmate is going to affection his work poster. And Manafort's corruption went beyond fiscal violations. He expended virtually his entire job in Washington lobbying on behalf of some of the most serious people in the world. -If you look at Manafort's long record of lobbying, it is about as controversial as you can get. He has represented a gallery, a rogue's gallery of foreign dictators.
-The firm he helped discover developed a niche, representing a roster of contentious international buyers that has been described as the Torturers' Lobby. -Filipino dictator Marcos, Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, ousted Ukrainian chairwoman and Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych. -He lobbied for oppressors, set up something called the Torturers' Lobby, and he was with Bane when they blew up that football field. Also, let's just take a second to note how insane the ethnic the gap in our criminal justice system are. Paul Manafort devoted tariff and bank cases of fraud and created something called the Torturers' Lobby and was sentenced to less than four years in prison.
Compare that to what a public supporter in Brooklyn tweeted last week. "For context on Manafort's 47 months of imprisonment, my patron yesterday was offered 36 to 72 months in prison for plagiarizing $100 importance of parts from a residential laundry room." That's insane. No one should go to jail for stealing quarterss from a laundry room. And I'm saying that, knowing that Donald Trump has almost certainly stolen quarterss from a laundry room. That's why his hair always looks like this. It's just ... loaded down with change. You know, in the summer, he has a much more difficult season secreting it. Manafort wasn't a marginal figure in Trump's orbit. He was the President's campaign chairman. Just listen to that. President, campaign, and chair. Each one of those texts is super-important, and hitherto Republican talk about him like he was assistant TO the different regions manager. For illustration, here's what Louisiana Senator John Kennedy had to say on Sunday. -Can you answer the question, though, on Paul Manafort? Because he was charged with an array of misdemeanours because of the special counsel's occasion. -Number one -- Number one, I was surprised at his sentence.
I thought it would be longer. Number two, as I said in the past, Mr. Manafort is a grifter. He used to be a partner with Roger Stone. Um, he's -- I'm sorry, Margaret. He's just a sleazoid. -A sleazoid? You sound like one of the people in Biff's gang from "Back to the Future." You should be wearing 3D glass and containing a skateboard. Now, in convicting Manafort, the adjudicate noted that the specific indicts in this case has still not directly related to the question of Russian collusion. He did not say there was no collusion, precisely that this case was not about conspiracy. But that didn't stop Trump from twisting his paroles regardless when he spoke to reporters on Friday. -I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. I think it's been a exceedingly, very tough time for him. But if you observe, both his lawyer, a highly respected male, and a very highly respected judge -- The reviewer said there was no deceit with Russia. This had nothing to do with collusion. There was no collusion. It's a collusion hoax.
It's a conspiracy witch deception. I don't collude with Russia. -Did he precisely call it a sorceres deception? All of his catchphrases are starting to blend together now. Trump has the same enunciation and syntax as a spam e-mail asking questions your Social Security number. "Help. I requirement a coins for a sorceres hoax." Trump has this practice of taking other people's messages out of context and contending those people exonerated him when they did no such thing, like when his former personal solicitor, Michael Cohen, vouched before Congress.
Cohen said he personally did not possess any definitive evidence of deceit, but Trump insisted that what Cohen have already been said was that there was no collusion at all, although he couldn't seem to make up his attention of determining whether Cohen was a liar or not. -He lied a lot, but it was very interesting, because he didn't lie about one thing. He said no conspiracy with the Russian deceive. And I said, "I wonder why he didn't merely lie about that, too, like he did about everything else." I signify, he lied about so many different things. And I was actually impressed that he didn't say, "Well, I think there was collusion for this reason or that." He didn't say that.
He said, "No collusion." And I was ... you know, a little affected by that, frankly. He could've -- He could've gone all-out. He exclusively became about 95% instead of 100%. -I love that Trump is amazed that Cohen lied 95% of the time, but not 100% of the time. Trump talks about not lying the direction the rest of us talk about those people who climb mountains without any paraphernalium. It's like, "Well, that's impressive. I could never do that." Trump, of course, is a pathological storyteller. His instinct is to lie about everything from Russian inclusion to the smallest and most meaningless items. In reality, here's an example of one of the dumbest things Trump has ever lied about. You might remember that last week this clip of Trump meeting with the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, ran viral. -You've really gave a big be invested in our country. We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple. -That's right. He called him Tim Apple. Does Trump believing that when "youre running" a company you're named after the produce? -"Mr. President, so, you are familiar Bill Gates." -"Uh, I believe it's Bill Windows." So, that happened last week.
Now, a normal person would have just let it go, written it off as a slip of the tongue, and moved closer. But Donald Trump is not a ordinary party. And on Sunday, the website Axios reported that during a rally in Florida with Republican donors, Trump claimed the media were spreading imitation information when they said he called the CEO of Apple "Tim Apple." Trump told the donors that he actually said "Tim Cook Apple" really fast and the "Cook" part of the sentence was soft.
Okay -- of all ... "Tim Cook Apple" doesn't make any more appreciation than "Tim Apple." "Tim Cook Apple" sounds like how Tarzan would describe someone making a tart. "Tim cook apple. Tim eat apple. Tarzan desired Tim! " Second, the tale you want us to believe is that you didn't say, "We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple." You said, "We appreciate it very much, Tim Cook Apple." If you're going to lie, at the least improve your place. "Officer, I have not been drinking! Because I was doing too much cocaine." And even the people in the area imagined Trump's lie was odd. According to Axios, Republican donors in attendance announced it one of Trump's weirdest lies ever.
"'I simply felt, why would you lie about that ?' one of the donors told me.' It doesn't even matter.'" No, it doesn't, but Trump lies about nonsense that doesn't matter because he lies about everything. Trump lies for the reasons Forrest Gump operates. He exactly does. "Lie, Forrest! Lie! " So...when that version -- when that version of the legend didn't move, improbably, Trump woke up this morning and redoubled down again, this time with an entirely new floor. He claimed he blended Tim Cook's reputation and his company's identify because it was faster. -Trump took to Twitter, saying, "At a recent roundtable meeting of business senior executives and long after formally inserting Tim Cook of Apple, I swiftly referred to Tim plus Apple as Tim Apple as an easy way to save meter and words.
The phony report was disparagingly all over this. And "its become" yet another bad Trump story." -Only Trump could claim that he was trying to save occasion and terms by writing a long tweet that takes up season and messages. You know, if you really wanted to save era and texts, you could just not talk at all. Do all your expedition rallies with passage videotape over your opening, or at least hop-skip a knot of words so it sounds like this.
-We have won, and I am very entirely crazy. -Of course, the best part of all of this is that Trump now has to double down and do it to everyone. "Oh, there's my friend Elon Tesla. Oh, if it isn't Steven Movie! And there's my crony, Paul Crimes." Everyone ... Everyone in Trump's orbit is a habitual storyteller. They lie about everything from the dumbest things to the most important things. Just take Erik Prince. He's an informal Trump advisor and the former CEO of the mercenary companionship Blackwater. Prince testified under covenant to Congress that he had no official role in the Trump campaign, but in an interrogation last week, he admitted that he was present at trade secrets Trump Tower meeting in 2016 with representatives of several foreign governments. And in the interview, he claimed that he hadn't keep lying to Congress, even though he patently did. -How come you didn't mention that meeting to Congress, returned it's so relevant to their investigation? -Uh, I did. As part of the investigations, I certainly disclosed any rallies, the extremely, very few I had.
-Not in the Congressional testimony you handed to the House. We went through it. You didn't mention anything about August 2016 see in Trump Tower. They specifically asked you what context you had, and you didn't answer that. -I don't believe I was asked that question. -I've got the transcript of the conversation here. -Sure. I might have been -- I conclude I was at Trump headquarters or the campaign headquarters, maybe -- -Trump Tower. August 3, 2016. You? Don't you think that's something important to disclose to the House Intelligence Committee while you're under expletive? -I did. -You didn't. We simply went through the testimony. There's no mention of the Trump Tower meeting, August 2016. Why not? -I don't know if they got the record wrong. -Damn. Soon he's going to go from "I wasn't asked that question" to "the transcript was wrong" to "I was just trying to save occasion and words." Trump lying about the dumbest things is discovering because it indicates that he and his associates will lie about anything, from Paul Manafort to Russian collusion to the CEO of his favorite fellowship ... -Tim Apple. -This has been "A Closer Look.".
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