Donald Trump was just caught in a really big lie, and it can be proven.
In his latest tweet storm, Trump railed against the Washington Post for their extensive report laying out the controversy surrounding his attacks on Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley earlier this month.
The report went inside the White House, with help from anonymous administration sources who painted the picture of a president unaware that his tweets were setting off a serious racial controversy.
And the Washington Post also had photographic proof.
Trump complained Monday that the report said his staffers tried to make him switch to new talking points — by saying the four congresswomen should leave the country not because they are black, but because they do not love it — and that led to him railing against the “fake news” and the “mainstream media” at large.
Trump’s tweet claimed “there were no talking points, except for those stated by me,” and that “‘reams of paper’ were never given to me.”
The Amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total Fake News. They said “Advisors wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.” Now really, does that sound like me? What advisors, there were no talking points,….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2019 [1]
….except for those stated by me, & “reams of paper” were never given to me. It is a made up story meant to demean & belittle. The Post had no sources. The facts remain the same, that we have 4 Radical Left Congresswomen who have said very bad things about Israel & our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2019 [2]
Yet as the Post’s Aaron Blake pointed out in a tweet, Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured several photos of Trump holding what can only be described as talking points during a press conference on July 15.
@realDonaldTrump [3] notes today on @AOC [4] and @IlhanMN [5] flipped and rotated #for [6] your viewing pleasure. pic.twitter.com/42sdbsRivQ [7]
— Jabin Botsford (@jabinbotsford) July 15, 2019 [8]
Those bulleted points are easily readable, and detail the disparaging, often untrue, and occasionally misspelled attacks he made on Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib during the conference.