Messina on Trump Disclosures: They Just Admitted the Pres. Stood on AF1 and Openly Lied

‘He just lied to the American public’

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MESSINA: "It is unprecedented. There's two things I think are interesting about this. First, they just admitted the President of the United States stood on Air Force One and openly lied to the American public, that he did in fact reimburse and did know about this. He just lied to the American public. The second thing — and I’ve never seen this. As you said, when I was in the White House, I was deputy chief of staff for operations and I dealt a lot with these public disclosure documents for White House staff and the president. They decided to put a footnote in there saying, 'We don’t need to reveal this information but we’re going to,' because basically they needed to buttress the Giuliani cover-up story. So they put this footnote saying, 'Oh, by the way, he did reimburse his lawyer for this and we just wanted to let you know.' I’ve never seen a PFD used to do that."

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