Statements we say are Pants on Fire!
Donald Trump
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a s*x tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016
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Trump's Pants on Fire about his early-morning tweet on Alicia Machado
By Louis Jacobson on Sunday, October 9th, 2016 at 11:38 p.m.
Trump insisted, when Anderson Cooper brought up his tweet about Alicia Machado, that he simply told his followers to look into her "past," but he literally tweeted "check out s*x tape." Pants on Fire.
During the second presidential debate, Donald Trump took issue with moderator Anderson Cooper’s description of an early morning tweet he had sent out about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
Machado emerged up as an issue in the campaign during the first debate, when Hillary Clinton cited Machado’s allegations that Trump had called the Venezuela-born contestant "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping" after she’d gained weight as Miss Universe. At the time, Trump was part-owner of the pageant.
The next morning, Trump criticized Machado during a Fox and Friends interview. And Trump eventually brought the feud to Twitter.
In the second debate on Oct. 9, Cooper cited the tweet in a question about whether Trump has the right temperament to be president.
"In the days after the first debate, you sent out a series of tweets from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., including one that told people to check out a s*x tape," Cooper said. "Is that the discipline of a good president?"
Trump responded, "No, it wasn’t saying, ‘check out a s*x tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at the person she built up to be this wonderful girl scout, who was no girl scout.’
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Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a s*x tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.
— PolitiFact National on Sunday, October 9th, 2016
READ MORE: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ru...
Trump's Pants on Fire about his early-morning tweet on Alicia Machado
By Louis Jacobson on Sunday, October 9th, 2016 at 11:38 p.m.
Trump insisted, when Anderson Cooper brought up his tweet about Alicia Machado, that he simply told his followers to look into her "past," but he literally tweeted "check out s*x tape." Pants on Fire.
During the second presidential debate, Donald Trump took issue with moderator Anderson Cooper’s description of an early morning tweet he had sent out about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
Machado emerged up as an issue in the campaign during the first debate, when Hillary Clinton cited Machado’s allegations that Trump had called the Venezuela-born contestant "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping" after she’d gained weight as Miss Universe. At the time, Trump was part-owner of the pageant.
The next morning, Trump criticized Machado during a Fox and Friends interview. And Trump eventually brought the feud to Twitter.
In the second debate on Oct. 9, Cooper cited the tweet in a question about whether Trump has the right temperament to be president.
"In the days after the first debate, you sent out a series of tweets from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., including one that told people to check out a s*x tape," Cooper said. "Is that the discipline of a good president?"
Trump responded, "No, it wasn’t saying, ‘check out a s*x tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at the person she built up to be this wonderful girl scout, who was no girl scout.’
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