6 Wild Things Said In The Secret Recording Of Trump's Dinner
A video that directly contradicts Donald Trump’s claim that he’s never spoken to indicted associates of his personal lawyer surfaced on Saturday, and with it came a whole barrage of wild statements.
The video, secretly filmed for 80 minutes in April 2018, shows a rare glimpse into a private conversation between the US president and a group of people over dinner at the Trump Hotel in Washington DC, the Associated Press reported.
US broadcaster PBS NewsHour was the first to release the full-length footage.
Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr can be seen clearly in the video. Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was also there, according to Parnas’ attorney.
While the most notable moments in the recording show Trump appearing to speak directly to Parnas and his urging to “get rid” of then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Trump also managed to cover other strange topics.
Here are the 6 of the wildest things that happened in the recording of Trump’s private dinner.
1. Trump said he could’ve beat Barack Obama in 2012.
As he’s known to do, Trump boasted about beating Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election but he added that could’ve beat Barack Obama in the 2012 race, too.
“Obama would have been easier, second term,” Trump said of Obama’s re-election campaign. “Romney should have never lost,” he added. “Obama would have been much easier.”
2. Trump claimed the European Union formed to “screw” the US.
“The European Union is a group of countries that got together to screw the United States,” Trump told the table. “It’s as simple as that.”
3. Trump floated plans for a “see-through” border wall.
Trump expressed the need for a “see-through” border wall. The president noted that drug smugglers use catapults to hurl drugs across the border, and claimed, without proof, that a 100-pound package of drugs struck a Border Patrol agent after being thrown over.
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