Does he just automatically lie?

[Vagitarian]

Or does he just have a very bad memory.

Former President Donald Trump boasted at a Fox event in Iowa last week about a massive purchase of oil he made during his presidency, as a contrast to President Joe Biden's energy policy.

“We had so much oil we didn’t know what to do with it. We bought a lot of it for very little for the strategic national reserves,” said Trump. “Think of it: 75 million barrels, and I bought it for peanuts, and Congress – I had to fight Congress, and the pricing was so crazy and so good.”

There's just one problem: Trump didn't buy 75 million barrels of oil.

Trump ‘proposed to buy’ 77 million barrels for the reserve in 2020 as oil prices cratered because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the Democratic-controlled Congress rejected the $3 billion in funding that would have paid for the purchase, describing it as a subsidy to big oil companies.

Various Republicans have since criticized Democrats for blocking Trump’s proposal, arguing that they caused the country to miss a golden opportunity to fill the reserve while prices were low but Trump boasted that he overcame Congressional opposition and did buy tens of millions of barrels at those prices. That’s not true.

 

[anonymous]

Or does he just have a very bad memory.

Former President Donald Trump boasted at a Fox event in Iowa last week about a massive purchase of oil he made during his presidency, as a contrast to President Joe Biden's energy policy.

“We had so much oil we didn’t know what to do with it. We bought a lot of it for very little for the strategic national reserves,” said Trump. “Think of it: 75 million barrels, and I bought it for peanuts, and Congress – I had to fight Congress, and the pricing was so crazy and so good.”

There's just one problem: Trump didn't buy 75 million barrels of oil.

Trump ‘proposed to buy’ 77 million barrels for the reserve in 2020 as oil prices cratered because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the Democratic-controlled Congress rejected the $3 billion in funding that would have paid for the purchase, describing it as a subsidy to big oil companies.

Various Republicans have since criticized Democrats for blocking Trump’s proposal, arguing that they caused the country to miss a golden opportunity to fill the reserve while prices were low but Trump boasted that he overcame Congressional opposition and did buy tens of millions of barrels at those prices. That’s not true.

He is a grifter. A g-r-i-f-t-e-r