{"id":24493,"date":"2016-08-11T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24493"},"modified":"2016-08-11T06:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:55:16","slug":"authoritative-sounding-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24493","title":{"rendered":"Authoritative-sounding Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/politics\/2016-election\/trump-lies\/\">The reporter\u2019s attorneys<\/a> turned the tables and brought Trump in for a deposition.<\/p>\n<p>For two straight days, they asked Trump question after question that touched on the same theme: Trump\u2019s honesty.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers confronted the mogul with his past statements \u2014 and with his company\u2019s internal documents, which often showed those statements had been incorrect or invented. The lawyers were relentless. Trump, the bigger-than-life mogul, was vulnerable \u2014 cornered, out-prepared and under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty times, they caught him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had misstated sales at his condo buildings. Inflated the price of membership at one of his golf clubs. Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees.<\/p>\n<p>That deposition \u2014 170 transcribed pages \u2014 offers extraordinary insights into Trump\u2019s relationship with the truth. Trump\u2019s falsehoods were unstrategic \u2014 needless, highly specific, easy to disprove. When caught, Trump sometimes blamed others for the error or explained that the untrue thing really was true, in his mind, because he saw the situation more positively than others did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reporter\u2019s attorneys turned the tables and brought Trump in for a deposition. For two straight days, they asked Trump question after question that touched on the same theme: Trump\u2019s honesty. The lawyers confronted the mogul with his past statements \u2014 and with his company\u2019s internal documents, which often showed those statements had been incorrect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24494,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions\/24494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}