Clapper: Cohen’s Testimony Reinforces Trump’s ‘Not Truthful’ and Is ‘Pretty Devastating’

‘He seems to have a separate reality for each day’

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CLAPPER: "You know, all the fact checkers and the number of his statements and tweets and all that that have a very distant relationship with the truth, so this is, I think, very compelling reinforcement of the notion that the President has a — that he is not truthful. He seems to have a separate reality for each day, each tweet, each statement in an interview, which has little or no bearing to what he said in the past. And it’s though he believes or thinks that nobody is going to remember or record what he said previously. So his reputation for not being truthful has certainly preceded him and preceded Michael Cohen. But I think because of Cohen’s close association with the President for over ten years as his personal attorney and fixer, it is pretty devastating."

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