President Donald Trump on Monday falsely denied making a remark he had made on digital camera simply 5 days prior. Then he launched a private assault towards the reporter who had precisely repeated his earlier comment.
Trump has a lengthy historical past of falsely denying he ever mentioned issues he had mentioned in public.
The topic of his newest false denial was the video footage of the September 2 US navy strikes towards a suspected drug-smuggling boat within the Caribbean. The navy performed a follow-up strike to kill the individuals who had survived the primary strike.
The Trump administration publicly launched the video of the preliminary strike however not the video of the follow-up strike, which has been proven to members of Congress behind closed doorways. On December 3, Trump mentioned he has no drawback releasing this video to the American folks.
Right here’s the December 3 alternate he had with ABC Information reporter Selina Wang on the White Home:
Wang: Mr. President, you launched video of that first boat strike on September 2nd, however not the second video. Will you launch video of that strike in order that the American folks can see for themselves what occurred?
Trump: I don’t know what they’ve, however no matter they’ve we’d actually launch, no drawback.
On Monday, one other ABC Information reporter, Rachel Scott, repeated Trump’s remark again to him whereas making an attempt to ask a query in regards to the potential launch of the extra video. However the president denied he had mentioned what he mentioned:
Scott: Mr. President, you mentioned you’ll haven’t any drawback with releasing the complete video of that strike on September 2nd off the coast of Venezuela. Secretary Hegseth now says –
Trump: I didn’t say that. That’s – you mentioned that, I didn’t say that. That is ABC pretend information.
Scott accurately famous, “You mentioned that you’d haven’t any drawback releasing the complete vi(deo).” She then pivoted again to her query. She famous that Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth says the query of whether or not to launch the video is being reviewed, and he or she requested Trump if he’s ordering Hegseth to launch it.
“No matter he decides is okay with me,” Trump mentioned.
Trump then provided a protection of the strikes, repeating his frequent false declare that every boat destroyed saves “25,000 American lives” and claiming the survivors “have been making an attempt to show the boat again to the place it may float, and we didn’t wish to see that, as a result of that boat was loaded up with medicine.” When Scott finally interjected to attempt to return to the difficulty of releasing the video, he known as her “probably the most obnoxious reporter in the entire place” and “truly a horrible reporter.”
CNN has reached out to an ABC Information spokesperson in regards to the president’s remarks about Scott. One other ABC Information journalist, Jonathan Karl, wrote on the social media platform X that Scott “quoted President Trump precisely.”
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