Decoding Trump's Lies

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When Tim O’Brien wrote the book, "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald," he noted that Trump wasn't actually a real billionaire. In response, Trump sued O’Brien, and after a salacious legal battle, lost. O'Brien joins us this week to share some of the craziest lies Trump has told people over the years, and to predict how the Trump administration will be remembered several decades from now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Back before Donald Trump became President of the United States. Yes, I know, that's a mouthful.
0:08.0	He had a day-to-day lie that he told everyone he bumped into.
0:11.7	For example, he would tell some people he was worth $4 billion.
0:14.8	Other people he was worth $5 billion.
0:17.1	Some he was worth as much as $6 billion.
0:19.3	This changed literally by the day.
0:22.1	So when Tim O'Brien, a reporter, came out with a book called Trump Nation,
0:26.2	the art of being the Donald in October 2005, it pointed out that Trump was actually worth
0:30.8	about 150 million to 250 million dollars. Needless to say, Donald
0:36.2	Trump was not very happy and he sued O'Brien alleging that Trump had been a victim of
0:41.1	malice.
0:42.6	Trump lost the suit and went on to become president,
0:46.1	and now of Ryan Works for Bloomberg View
0:48.3	writing about Donald Trump.
0:50.5	He joins me today to talk about what
0:52.3	it's been like to cover him for over three decades
0:54.6	and to tell some of the most bombastic moments he experienced spending time with Trump
0:58.2	over the years and he did spend a lot of time with him.
1:01.0	Including one crazy story where Trump lied about a fake painting on his private
1:05.3	jest saying it was actually an original. O'Brien also offers a few predictions for how this is all going
1:11.0	to end and providing it's not a nuclear war with North
1:14.5	Korea how the Trump administration will be remembered several decades from
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