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Trump And An Odd Turn Of Phrase
Yes, we are going to spend our day over-analyzing a single Trump Tweet. But it’s been bugging us.
It’s all about this Tweet, about FBI Director Christopher Wray:
Here’s what caught our attention: the clunkiness of:
“I don’t know what report…Wray was reading, but it sure wasn’t the one given to me”.
When the natural way for a human to put it would’ve been:
“I don’t know what report…Wray was reading, but it sure wasn’t the one I was reading.”
Now we know Trump never reads anything, especially probably not a 476- page report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, but that’s never stopped him from saying he did. Which is consistent with his initial catch all response:
“It’s everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse.”
So here’s what we think: “given to me” means just 1 of 2 things:
- Someone provided a very filtered briefing on the Inspector General’s Report to the President. This could be Attorney General Bill…
