As a private businessman, Donald Trump managed to skate past bankruptcies and scandals, but as president he’s finding it’s harder to contradict his own statements.
Over his decades in real estate, Donald Trump was seemingly able to get away with anything, emerging from each consecutive bankruptcy and scandal ever more famous and with his brand ever more marketable.
As a candidate, he declared he could shoot someone in the middle of New York’s Fifth Avenue and not “lose any voters.”
But as president, Trump is running up against the limits of saying or doing whatever he wants.
The revelation by Rudy Giuliani that his client reimbursed his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels contradicted Trump’s own previous denials that he knew anything about the deal — and, despite Giuliani’s intent to tamp down concerns that the October 2016 payment violated campaign finance laws, raised a whole new set of questions about whether Trump failed to disclose a personal loan.
“As long as they believe that all that matters is the base and Fox News, they’ll keep doing it,” said Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist who has been critical of Trump’s presidency. “But at some point, when the law is the issue and not Trump’s bubble, you end up in a situation where he can’t just lie his way out of every single box.”
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As a private businessman, Donald Trump managed to skate past bankruptcies and scandals, but as president he's finding it's harder to contradict his own statements https://t.co/JsjEjlTR2G pic.twitter.com/qwcevvx86L
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