Watergate’s Carl Bernstein On BuzzFeed: It’s Trump Who Has Been Lying All Along
“We have a president of the United States who lies .... serially, routinely, compulsively such as never has happened in our modern history,” he said.
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Bernstein noted that it’s still unclear if that means the substance of the story is untrue, or if the statement refers to “how the special prosecutor came to know such a thing if indeed that is what happened.”
He noted that he and Bob Woodward made an embarrassing mistake that challenged the credibility of their reporting on Watergate. They reported in the Washington Post that then-president Richard Nixon’s chief of staff directed the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Watergate burglars. They cited grand jury testimony that in fact did not exist, which the Nixon administration used to slam all of the Post’s Watergate coverage. But the substance of the story turned out to be true.
Bernstein cautioned that “we need to wait for the Mueller report.” But “in the meantime, from available sources, including filings by Mueller ... we have established .. that the president of the United States, his family members, people closest to him in the campaign have lied at every turn in almost everything concerning Russia.”
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This story ain't dead by a long shot.