Huckabee Sanders does have a point, POTUS Donnie didn’t necessarily lie in a “Brian Williams tall tale” manner about the conversation with the Boy Scout President or Mexican Pres phone calls, he just exaggerated a little. No harm no foul, right – PB/TK
Sanders forced to revise Trump’s claim about conversations with heads of Boy Scouts, Mexico – By Kathryn Watson / Aug 2 2017
The calls of praise President Trump told the Wall Street Journal he received from the head of the Boy Scouts and from Mexico’s president were actually in-person conversations at last month’s G-20 summit in Germany and with individual Boy Scout leaders, incoming White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was forced to admit Wednesday.
Mr. Trump said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that the head of the Boy Scouts had called him to say his recent speech was the “greatest speech,” and Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, called him and told him fewer people were crossing the border. Both the Boy Scouts of America and Mexico denied those claims. Sanders, asked about the disparate accounts in Wednesday’s press briefing, said the president had the conversation with Peña Nieto at the G-20 in Hamburg, Germany, and the president’s claims of a conversation with the head of the Boy Scouts were actually conversations he had with individual Boy Scout leadership members after his recent speech at their national jamboree in West Virginia.
“I wouldn’t say it was a lie,” Sanders said, asked if the president lied.
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