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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
I'm ... mildly amused with how people are just willing to take an anonymous (or for that matter even a non-anonymous) "advisor" to Lt. Irrelevant at face value on the VP conversation claim.
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Because it sounds so perfectly Trumpian that it elicits an involuntary nod.
It may or may not be true, but even as a falsehood it wouldn't sound wildly out of character. This is a guy who doesn't realize that a kingdom is not the same thing as a country, and blithely told Scotland what a great thing their country did in voting to leave the EU (Scotland did not vote to leave the EU).
If it appears that you haven't the interest in making sure you have a piddling detail like that straight about an ally, it's not a stretch to believe that you'd be willing to turn John Nance Garner's aphorism on its head and let someone else do all the work while you light cigars with $100 bills in the Oval Office.
Optics, yo.