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Lanny Davis on the tape that he released of Trump: "The only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters."

Trump's people are already trying to bullshit it by putting out a transcript that says something different than what you actually hear, which is why Davis is begging people to listen for themselves.

It doesn't seem to be a, "He meant to say don't, not do" a la the Helskinki form of absurd bullshit. The lie (and they lie like it is a bodily function) in this case is more along the lines of, "What you are seeing and reading is not what's happening."

It won't end.

 

The writer does his best to be compassionate toward them, given that he is writing an article that points to facts they don't want to acknowledge in their grief. Here is the graf from his story:

In doing so, the Trump administration may have fostered misperceptions in the Warmbier family itself. During the year after highlighting the story that Otto was physically tortured, Trump praised Fred and Cindy as “good friends” and invited them to high-profile events. But Fred indicated on national television in September 2017 that he had no more knowledge of his son's case than that put out by the news media. In the lawsuit the Warmbiers filed in April against North Korea for Otto's death, they continued to assert evidence that he was repeatedly beaten. If they entertain the belief that their son's last conscious moments were spent in fear and physical agony as he was assaulted, that may be the result of the administration's unwillingness to acknowledge a different version of events, one that the facts support. But whatever they believe, what is clear is that they are loving parents, dealing with an unimaginably tragic loss, who have been striving to honor Otto's legacy.