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Trump Just Made Up a Quote to Praise Himself as the ‘Great Hostage Negotiator in History’

Donald Trump went on another crazy tweet storm on Friday morning and one of his tweets has raised two big questions: Has he never heard of the “i before e” rule, and did he just give himself a new presidential responsibility?

On Friday, Trump tweeted a very complimentary quote from the so-called “cheif hostage negotiator, USA.”

It’s true that America has a “chief hostage negotiator,” but it’s very unclear where this apparent quote from this unnamed person came from.

One possible explanation would be that Gary Noesner, a former chief of the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit, made one of his occasional TV appearances and said something nice about Trump.

But seeing as Fox & Friends doesn’t seem to have Noesner on Thursday’s lineup, there’s also a chance that John Barron has reemerged. Barron is the so-called “Trump Organization representative” who tried to serve Trump stories to New York media back in his real estate days — and who reporters were very aware was Trump himself.

The tweet probably had something to do with a Thursday Washington Post report that said Trump pledged to pay a $2 million hospital bill for Otto Warmbier, who North Korea detained in 2016, and who died six days after he returned to America.

After all, Trump denied paying anything to North Korea for Warmbier in a tweet sent just 20 minutes before this one, and also complained about former President Barack Obama’s handling of hostage situations.

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