You can believe me or you can believe the lying videotape
by digby
The clip starts by showing Trump claiming he opposed the Iraq War.
“I was an opponent of the Iraq War from the beginning,” Trump said in the clip from a Monday rally in Youngstown, Ohio.
That's followed by a clip from "The Howard Stern Show" on Sept. 11, 2002, when Trump was asked if he supported the invasion.
“Yeah, I guess so,” he replied at the time. "I wish the first time it was done correctly.”
The video also contrasts Trump's views on the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
“I have been just as clear as saying what a catastrophic mistake Hillary Clinton and President Obama made with the reckless way in which they pulled out,” he said during Monday's rally.
But in a March 16, 2007, interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said, "How do they get out? They get out, that’s how they get out. Declare victory and leave.”
Trump is also shown having two minds on the American military intervention in Libya.
“Libya was stable,” he said Monday. "President Obama and Hillary Clinton should never have attempted to build a democracy in Libya.”
But that's contrasted with a clip of Trump in the past arguing for removing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from power.
“Gadhafi, in Libya, is killing thousands of people,” Trump said in a clip from Feb. 28, 2011, video. "Nobody knows how bad it is. We should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very quick and easy.”
His voters believe him no matter what the evidence shows. They think the tape's been doctored or that it's taken out of context. And that's if they even see this. Most of them live in their little wingnut bubble where this never even comes up.
In their silo, Trump is winning, the polls are skewed and anything he says that doesn't quite fit with what they want to think about him is either no big deal or it's a lie propagated by the liberal media.
These people are not going to sober up if Trump loses. And some of them are going to be very angry Second Amendment voters.
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