2016 ELECTION/FAKE NEWS/RUSSIA: “Because with the fake news if you tell a joke, if you’re sarcastic, if you’re having fun with the audience, if you’re on live television with millions of people and 25,000 people in an arena, and if you say something like, ‘Russia, please, if you can, get us Hillary Clinton’s emails. Please, Russia, please…’
So everybody is having a good time. I’m laughing, we’re all having fun. And then that fake CNN and others say, ‘He asked Russia to go get the emails. Horrible…’ These people are sick.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference,” whitehouse.gov, Mar. 3, 2019