Trump Backtracks: Running For Prez ‘Doesn’t Mean I’m Not Allowed To Do Business’

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President Donald Trump, who once vociferously claimed that he had no business ties with Russia that would compromise him, is now trying to toss himself a life preserver in the light of Michael Cohen’s new guilty plea.

“But when I run for President, that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to do business,” Trump said. “I was doing a lot of different things when I was running.”

“After I won, obviously, I didn’t do business,” he added.

 

 

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  1. The end is coming, Dotard.

    Fast…

  2. I think this lens manufacturer knows more than we do.

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  3. I wonder what his written responses said about this, when he thought Manafort had Mueller all snowed…

  4. If anything mattered anymore, this would be the end for Trump.

  5. Well, let’s see. He’s lying to cover up his quid-pro-quos. He’s lying transparently, because he thinks everyone is as stupid as him. And I think that at least emotionally he can’t really grasp what a conflict of interest is or why they’re bad.

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