During a bizarre meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Donald Trump lied about his father, Fred Trump, being born in Germany and demanded to know the “oranges” of the Mueller report, when he meant to say “origins.”
“My father is German, was German,” Trump falsely stated, as his father was born in New York. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.”
While his direct family connection is false, the president’s father was descended from a German immigrant.
Trump also mistakenly ranted about the “oranges” of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s concluded investigation into his campaign and Russia.
“I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation, the beginnings of that investigation,” Trump said, before correcting himself and asking for the “origin of the investigation.”
He proceeded to opine that “the only thing that’s disappointing to me about the Mueller report” was the lack of focus on “the oranges — how it started.”
As for his claims about Fred Trump, the president has overstated his family’s connection to Germany in the past.
At last year’s NATO summit in Brussels, Trump said insisted he has “great respect for Germany — my father is from Germany.”
https://www.mediaite.com/online/tru...ys-oranges-instead-of-origins-multiple-times/
But according to the official White House transcript, released almost five hours later at 6:47 pm, Trump didn’t say “oranges” at all, he said “oringes,” and he only did it twice:
And I hope that this investigation now, which is finished — it’s totally finished. No collusion. No obstruction. I hope they now go and take a look at the oringes [origins] — the origins of the investigation, the beginnings of that investigation. If you look at the origin of the investigation — where it started; how it started; who started it, whether it’s McCabe or Comey or a lot of them; where does it go; how high up in the White House did it go — you will all get Pulitzer Prizes, okay? You’d all get Pulitzer Prizes. You should have looked at it a long time ago.
And that’s the only thing that’s disappointing to me about the Mueller report. The Mueller report, I wish, covered the oringes [origins] of how it started — the beginnings of the investigation and how it started. It didn’t cover that. And for some reason, none of that was discussed.
Presumably, someone at the White House concluded that it’s less embarrassing for Trump to have made up an entirely new word that swaps letters and adds an “e” to “origins” than for him to have said “oranges” three times, which is what actually happened.
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...ranscript-claims-he-said-oringes-not-oranges/
“My father is German, was German,” Trump falsely stated, as his father was born in New York. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.”
While his direct family connection is false, the president’s father was descended from a German immigrant.
Trump also mistakenly ranted about the “oranges” of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s concluded investigation into his campaign and Russia.
“I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation, the beginnings of that investigation,” Trump said, before correcting himself and asking for the “origin of the investigation.”
He proceeded to opine that “the only thing that’s disappointing to me about the Mueller report” was the lack of focus on “the oranges — how it started.”
As for his claims about Fred Trump, the president has overstated his family’s connection to Germany in the past.
At last year’s NATO summit in Brussels, Trump said insisted he has “great respect for Germany — my father is from Germany.”
https://www.mediaite.com/online/tru...ys-oranges-instead-of-origins-multiple-times/
But according to the official White House transcript, released almost five hours later at 6:47 pm, Trump didn’t say “oranges” at all, he said “oringes,” and he only did it twice:
And I hope that this investigation now, which is finished — it’s totally finished. No collusion. No obstruction. I hope they now go and take a look at the oringes [origins] — the origins of the investigation, the beginnings of that investigation. If you look at the origin of the investigation — where it started; how it started; who started it, whether it’s McCabe or Comey or a lot of them; where does it go; how high up in the White House did it go — you will all get Pulitzer Prizes, okay? You’d all get Pulitzer Prizes. You should have looked at it a long time ago.
And that’s the only thing that’s disappointing to me about the Mueller report. The Mueller report, I wish, covered the oringes [origins] of how it started — the beginnings of the investigation and how it started. It didn’t cover that. And for some reason, none of that was discussed.
Presumably, someone at the White House concluded that it’s less embarrassing for Trump to have made up an entirely new word that swaps letters and adds an “e” to “origins” than for him to have said “oranges” three times, which is what actually happened.
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-tru...ranscript-claims-he-said-oringes-not-oranges/
