By David A. Fahrenthold David A. Fahrenthold Reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. Email Bio Follow April 19 at 7:16 PM President Trump has bragged that he has “one of the great memories of all time.”
In the case of the special counsel investigation, prosecutors found Trump’s repeated assertions of a faulty memory “inadequate,” according to Mueller’s newly released report.“This is the President’s opportunity to voluntarily provide us with information for us to evaluate in the context of all of the evidence we have gathered,” they wrote, according to the report.
“If they say they don’t recall when they actually do recall, that actually is a false statement,” and could carry legal penalties, said Jacob S. Frenkel, a former federal prosecutor who now works in the D.C. office of the law firm Dickinson Wright. “The problem is, how do you prove that?” In that Trump University deposition — when lawyers were pressing Trump about his supervision of the school, starting 10 years earlier — Trump’s forgetful response set the tone. He said “I don’t remember” more than 30 times, and in 16 other instances responded to questions by saying it had been “too many years.”In a 2007 deposition, Trump faced an attorney who wanted him to explain a claim he had made two years earlier to reporter Timothy L. O’Brien. The claim: Trump’s net worth was $6 billion.
As recently as 2010, Sater had office space inside Trump’s executive suites, and a Trump Organization business card. Sater said they had met one-on-one numerous times. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Comey recalled Trump saying. Comey said he did not commit to ending the investigation of Flynn, but took Trump’s statement as “a direction.”
NO RECOLLECTION OF THE PAST AS WELL AS THE PRESENT, BECAUSE BEING A DESTROYER TO THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER FOR THE PUBLIC. SIMILIAR TO THE ANSWER TO THE NORTH KOREAN KIM’S ANSWER THAT HE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF OTTO’S TORTURE.
Windmill cancer?
Mob boss response
Interesting. I suspect he was told to use those exact words.
No collusion, no obstruction, no recollection. What's next?
Onset of Alzheimer's
Either he’s lied and deceived all the way through or he’s the village idiot.. you decide. Personally I think it’s a little from column A and a little from column B
Now THAT may be true!
Hillary made that statement famous
hillary clinton
I’m surprised realDonaldTrump knows a big word like “recollection” — I would have expected nothing more complicated linguistically than “I dunno” (from a man who has probably claimed to have a better memory than any other human being on the planet).
Ban WP from twitter
Comey couldn’t recall 245 times...don’t recall that being reported or played up by the Post...
Turned to a familiar refrain... coined by the Clintons!
so does that prove that his IQ isn't as high as he claims
Gotti’s defense
The *best* memory realDonaldTrump 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trump speak. I have no recollection = no way am I answering that
Having convenient memory lapses is how you escape a perjury trap,
I guess we now know what he meant when he stated he ( not his lawyers ) answered all the questions very easily!!
Remember Obama administration employees not recalling, or pleading the fifth? And Hillary claiming she didn't recall, while her minions were smashing evidence on her phones....?
A stable genius
The standard refrain of the elderly.
'What do you mean, wipe it with a cloth,' HillaryClinton said when asked about destroying a hard-drive containing State Department emails relevant to Benghazi assassination of Ambassador Stevens.
Didn't HRC also not remember?
Democracy dies as the media lies.
...because it didn’t happen.
Typical
If you think of telling 10-15 lies daily for 72 years, that's about 300,000 lies, then add to that a reality show which is all fiction, plus real life...it does get a little confusing. I think that's why he's got to brand everything...to remember his name.🤣
This is not the behavior of an innocent man🤷🏾♂️
That might be his first truth! A simple mind you know
Comey said it over 200 times! Hillary deleted emails so there would be no recollection. Did you write about that?
Tne best-brained stable genius...
Fighting slander is not obstruction.
He can’t remember what he did an hour ago
I know he is a stable genius but he never claimed to have a photographic memory. Look how many words the president speaks, what did you expect (you really give him that much credit,wow)?
SO WHAT? What would you do if you knew people were trying to trip you up? STOP YOUR HATEFUL PROPAGANDA!
He’s right, he’s got dementia ImpeachTrumpNow
No Collusion and no obstruction get over it
Considering a key tactic of the investigators is a purgury trap followed by blackmail and threats against exteded familiy having no recollection is a smart move. How this is legal i don't know, you could get mother Theresa to say she is Jack the Ripper with such pressure.
TRUMP THE RUSSIAN CRIMINAL!
“In the space of three hours, Clinton claimed,by our count,over a hundred times that she ‘did not recall’ or ‘did not remember,’” Starr wrote. “This suggested outright mendacity. To be sure, human memory is notoriously fallible,her strained performance struck us as preposterous.”
🎵Media is crazy🎵 Media is crazy 🎵Media is crazy for Trump🎵🎶
Fake news WAPO
At this point what difference does it make?
Smart.
Good enough for the former FBI director .
Hmmm 🤔 where have we heard that phrase before? Oh right, 245 times from Comey when before Congressional Committee, and countless times by Hillary Clinton when before Congressional Committees and the FBI ....
Germany can be happy that his grandparents decided to emigrate to the USA. On the other hand, he would not be a president of the US and we would all be a little safer. And in Germany, he would not have become Chancellor or President so easily.
Oh but trump has boasted repeatedly that he's got the best memory. Once again he's lying and this time on paper again.
Of course he doesn’t remember. If he did, somebody might hold him responsible to things, and we wouldn’t want that, would we? Fuxxing coward,,🤬👎👎
BIG FUCKING DEAL HILLARY SAID OVER 100 TIMES BUT THATS RIGHT ITS WAS OK FOR HER TO SAY THAT!!!!!
Just accept the truth that You Fake News have lost
BREAKING news the following media reporters are so hurting and frustrated at their report centers 1. MSNBC news 2. CNN 3. New York Times 4. ABC's news 5. CNBC news They try all their efforts to help Democrats to overthrow the president with their propaganda news but it fail
The whole system is a joke.
And yet....
This ploy didn't help Nixon.
There is nothing so necessary in Trumpian politics as a short memory.
Trump the Best Président
Where’s your Jim Comey story echoing the same sentiment? Democrat propaganda. Pure garbage.
The ghost of “Lying Ronnie” is making an appearance.
Even for his father's birthplace, he has ” no recollection'. So....
I have no recollection of Donald trump. Is this a cartoon character, an alien or something rose? I can only recollect things that matter. I try not to remember/recollect insignificant/ unimportant things.
You had no problem when Hillary, Comey couldn't remember very much!
smartdissent sounds like of few of gop.......
SelectiveAmnesia🙄
And Comey said 'I don't know' 232 times.
Pathological liars don't remember. That is the symptoms of their sickness
Alzheimer’s
With such Memory Loss; Perhaps, some other 'home' would be more beneficial than the WH!
Best way to avoid a perjury trap, is it not?
Convenient response. He sure remembers slights.
Why should he remember the big lie! It was disgusting and it was made up by people with no light. The dark hearted dems.
What a fraud. It makes me cry.💧
realDonaldTrump mocked Christine Ford in Kavanaugh hearings for not remembering things happened 4 decades ago. Now, this self proclaimed smartest mind gives same answers for events of past 2 years!! Is US running risk of POTUS with early demential problem or lying to advantage?
He did 36 times and Comey 247 times lol
oh well.
No surprise there!
Hillary Clinton told the FBI she couldn’t recall something more than three dozen times
Says the man with the best memory of anyone!!!
So do lawyers that have to answer interrogatories
The was like writing an exam w/ all yr notebooks & Internet w/ u. Your failure is there for everyone to see.
Unfortunately what can we expect from this type of grifter?
Time to investigate the other side.
This is exactly what you’re supposed to write if you’re not 100% certain. This is lawyering 101, what kinda of attorney would say, just guess. People get mad how Trump answered but he has display unparalleled cooperation and openness in this investigation.
That's His Answer When His Playing Partner Asked What Score He Had On That Hole...But Put Me Down For A 3 !!!
NO COLLUSION! Move on! sick of this.
In other news Comey didn't remember 500+ times!
Lieslieslieslies
Wonder if or when the liar in chief will find or get his ‘recollection’ back; Trump shouldn’t be sitting opposite any world leader since he has a ‘recollection’ situation going on!
Dementia? Syphilis? Deceit...the ever popular Trump card!?
Other familiar refrains: I'll release my taxes. WikiLeaks isn't my thing. No collusion, no obstruction. Fake News! Various false claims to the highest (job creation, IQ, best economy..) ANYTHING that can make him look good.
I plead the fifth, said the President 37 times.
“I have the greatest memory”
Common legal tactic, often used to avoid a substantive answer.
President Trump remembered to take a play out of the WITHCHs playbook
TrumpFeignsDementia
The Mueller investigation is over. Move on.
Now do Comey.
About his wife, his kids, his business failures, his employees (including the illegal ones), his unpaid vendors, his associates, the mid-west farmers, everyone he has fired, mistresses, kids shot in schools, people without insurance, he has no recollection at all.
Session's favorite saying.
What recollection does Jeff BEZOS have
Человек без памяти, странно. Человек без воспоминаний- опасен...🤔
Any good lawyer will tell a client to say “I don’t recall”, anytime the client feels like they’re being led into a perjury trap. Hillary said “I don’t recall” thousands of times whenever she was forced to testify under oath.
I thought Trump once or a thousand times,said he has a great mine, knows all, now that the shi* has hit the fan, he has no recollection, great mine gone bad. Right...
Dedicate to him - I can't recal - a reggae song.
Not that different than pleading the 5th...🤥🧐🤨
Just like his mob boss buddy taught him.
But I thought he had the greatest memory every?
I have the best brain.
He learned that from Jeff Sessions.
Ambien and adderall do have amazing side effects.
Yes, the 'best' memory of any president since prehistoric man.
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
But he told us he has the best memory 🤔 You mean Donny lied to us😐
But I thought he had one of the best memories of all time.
At some level, don't we all want to be able to say that when asked about the Trump presidency?
Y’all need to move on!!! Good lord!
Nothing like Comey though
Tell him he's not president. Maybe he forgot that too.
Sure.
StableGenius is learning from DC swamp,how to defend himself. BestPresidentEver
'Best memory' my ass.
And he does have an excellent memory for people who have done him wrong. Can’t wait for the DemonRats’ perp walk. Trump2020
Here’s the thing. We all know that he didn’t actually write those answers. Had he, they would’ve been longer, self incriminating and full of babbling nonsense. Seriously. Why do we play these games?🤦🏼♀️
When the heat is on, the repuglicans ALWAYS turn to what Reagan said: 'I...............don't remember'. PATHETIC.
'Hey Trump, some random dude said this and that, do you remember that?' 'No.' MSNBC: Omg! Did you hear that?! Impeach!
Pompeo as the head of the CIA couldnt remember either. The whole admin is corrupt.
I do believe if you go over the transcripts from the mob hearings over the decades you will hear the same phrase. realDonaldTrump isn't fooling those of us with an IQ higher than a MAGA gnat's. His response was a lie as he surely does recollect. Mueller was probably not fooled.
He should consider taking notes. It helps with memory.
Jim Comey couldn’t recall his own investigation 245 times... Trump2020
What happened to 'I have a great memory, I have the best memory'? I guess trump's phenomenal memory doesn't include his criminal acts.
that this man, who apparently has serious memory problems has the nuclear codes scares the hell out of me.
Can you tell me exactly who you talked to on the phone on July 5, 2016 at 9am in the morning? I didn’t think so.
Brilliant
Any other public figures who couldn’t recall a rather large number of evident crimes?
Good ol “conservative amnesia.” Their go to response when they know what they did was wrong.
GoTrump
How'd he remember that?
Yes, because he’s losing his memory something awful due to dementia. He can’t even remember which country his father was from.
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