Of course he said it. By saying the tape is faked is just another example of Trump displaying how stupid he is, by assuming everyone else is stupid.
This a is a direct, blatant lie to the American people and it's pretty disrespectful. Unless he's gone senile, he knows he said it and he knows exactly what he said. He's in a new category of liar all by himself...and that's a liar who lies about something after he already admitted to it previously.
It doesn't matter how innocuous the thing being lied about is (which it isn't) -- you should all be mad that your president lied to you like you're a fucking child he can trick. It's a shameful way for a president to act and I can't believe we're in a place where this is now normal. Will anyone after him at least be held to some kind of standard?
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