Remember trump saying he got the three UCLA bad boys released from China?

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Well, the cheeto-in-charge lied. again.
Surprised? :rolleyes:
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-don...reeing-ucla-basketball-players-214921151.html

It turns out that everything was already in the works, as to the 3 players being released to go back home,
when trump called xi jinping (Feb 12th), the plan and the fate of the three players was already in place (Feb 10th).

"“It was important for [Chinese authorities] that the players were left back for a couple of days after the rest of the team flew home,” a UCLA source told ESPN. “We agreed not to say anything and not comment until they returned home. They wanted there to be some kind of punishment and avoid the perception that they got off easy. Their flights were switched from Saturday night to Tuesday night, so they were going back home 72 hours after the rest of the team. So, it wasn’t like we found out Tuesday morning they were coming home that day. We knew. That was already the plan Friday morning (Feb 10th).”"

From one of the liar-in-chief's tweets.
"It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think.."
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/933280234220134401?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=https://sports.yahoo.com/

As the article ends:
"So, there is our president, demanding credit for accomplishing nothing."

What a pathetic, despicable low-life.
 
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Hugo Stiglitz

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Gotta give Trump a little political credit here, he managed to get away with this media manipulation credit claiming for nearly four months before getting busted by the press.

And as usual, the consequences will be nothing.

Not bad for a guy with no experience in public office.

Meanwhile, Hillary is still being crucified over Bosnian sniper fire she came under over 20 years ago, even though she’s walked those comments back.
 
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Something like this makes me wonder if Trump was under the impression it was his doing from an aid telling him how great he did. We know he likes praise, we know he needs praise.
 

PottedMeat

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Gotta give Trump a little political credit here, he managed to get away with this media manipulation credit claiming for nearly four months before getting busted by the press.

And as usual, the consequences will be nothing.

and its completely worth it, and worth doing again and again and again

it'll probably be in some 'accomplishments' list in campaign spam
 

dainthomas

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The thing I remember most from this is all the hate messages that Levar Burton was getting.