For Donald Trump, Ignorance is Bliss |
CounterPunch Exclusives
CounterPunch Exclusives
For Donald Trump, Ignorance is Bliss
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
In 2016, when reporter Katy Tur asked Donald Trump about his false claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the 9/11 attacks, he replied, “I have the world’s greatest memory. It’s one thing everyone agrees on.” However, when asked about this remark under oath in a deposition during the Trump University lawsuit, he replied, “I don’t remember that.” Simply put, Trump has not a great memory but a greatly convenient memory that he uses to avoid accountability. Here are a few of many possible examples.
After Marco Rubio answered “of course” when asked whether everyone in the United States was entitled to due process, Kristen Welker asked Trump whether he agreed.” I don’t know,” he replied, I’m not a lawyer.” Apparently, he had forgotten the oath to uphold the Constitution, including its Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, that he had taken twice.
Trump claimed that when Iran “hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait Nobody expected that.” There seems little doubt that at least some of Trump’s........