A man who thinks his own counsel is the best and only counsel staggers from one blunder to the next.
Lying is second nature for this guy.
[SIZE=6]Finnish president denies ever discussing ‘raking’ with Trump[/SIZE]
By QUINT FORGEY
11/18/2018 12:53 PM EST
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President Sauli Niinistö of Finland said he didn’t discuss raking with President Donald Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The leader of Finland denied on Sunday that he’d ever told President Donald Trump that the small Nordic nation relies upon “raking” its forests to prevent wildfires — even though Trump promoted the dubious conservation method during a visit to flame-ravaged California over the weekend.
“You look at other countries where they do it differently, and it’s a whole different story,” Trump said Saturday, standing alongside Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom of California among the charred ruins of the Skyway Villa Mobile Home and RV Park in the town of Paradise.
“I was with the president of Finland, and he said, ‘We have a much different — we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation,” Trump continued. “And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don’t have any problem. And when it is, it’s a very small problem. So I know everybody’s looking at that to that end. And it’s going to work out, it’s going to work out well.”
But President Sauli Niinistö of Finland told Ilta-Sanomat, the country’s second-largest newspaper, on Sunday that he never discussed raking with Trump during their brief meeting in Paris last weekend, where the leaders attended various commemorations marking the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I.
“I mentioned [to] him that Finland is a land covered by forests and we also have a good monitoring system and network,” Niinistö said, adding that he recalled telling Trump: “We take care of our forests.”
Kassin,
I don’t think that this guy knows what lying is any more. He improvises, just stringing home-made sentences and associations on the fly. Good thing is that he’s impervious to contradictory facts, criticism or correction. If pushed, he’llo attack the Norwegian leader to remain ‘right’.