Donald Trump often shares personal stories to connect with voters. But important details in Trump's tales often change from one audience to the next.
WASHINGTON – It’s an amusing story that always gets a laugh and allows Presient Donald Trump to show he’s a good friend to Israel. The scene: a Hanukkah celebration in the White House’s crystal-chandeliered East Room on Dec. 11. Trump entertained his audience by recalling a conversation with a Jewish friend he identified as New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Trump said he asked Kraft which of his presidential decisions was more significant: Moving the U.S.
More striking is the supposed growth rate in the character’s retirement savings. In some versions, Trump has reported that the person’s 401 is up by 39 percent. In others, he has claimed it jumped by 42, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50, 55, 60 and 72 percent. USA TODAY/Ipsos poll: For voters, Bernie Sanders outranks other Democrats – and Trump – on values, empathy
That same year, Hillary Clinton told supporters on the campaign trail a frightening story of landing in Bosnia under sniper fire when she was first lady – an account that was called into question by multiple fact-checkers. Clinton later said she misspoke. Most Americans don’t immerse themselves in policy debates the way Washington insiders do, “so the more personal you make the debate and the more local you make it, the more invested they become in your argument because it's more relatable,” Madden said.
“I heard those stories as far back as 2003,” she said. “Then fast forward, when he launched the campaign and he started telling these stories, they would be so different.” When aides asked Trump for specifics, “He literally looked at us and said what difference does it make?” said Manigault Newman, who wrote a tell-all book after she was forced out of the White House in 2017.
'A plan to fight back': How Elizabeth Warren stumbled in New Hampshire and her plan for 'the long haul' “It struck me from the get-go that he was attaching these stories to human beings because he thought they would sound more persuasive,”' Schwartz said. "I said, 'How do you stop this? How do you stop this?’” Trump recalled asking the officer about the city’s violence. “’If you were put in charge – to a specific person – do you think you could stop it?’ He said, 'Mr. Trump, I'd be able to stop it in one week.' And I believed him 100%"
Trump again mentioned the story during an interview with Sean Hannity on Oct. 11, 2017, telling the Fox News host the police officer informed him he could solve the city's violence problem"immediately." 2020 candidates on the issues: A voter's guide to where they stand on health care, gun control and more
In one, which he has told at least three times since becoming president, he talked of unnamed heads of corporations – “powerful people, big people” – who have walked into the Oval Office and become so overcome with emotion that they dissolve into tears.
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