Here's a rare case in which you can see Trump formulating a lie in real time.
His prepared speech for his MS-13 event last week accurately said that MS-13 had reportedly called for the killing of a cop in the Long Island area. He started saying that, but stopped mid-sentence. 1/
His prepared speech for his MS-13 event last week accurately said that MS-13 had reportedly called for the killing of a cop in the Long Island area. He started saying that, but stopped mid-sentence. 1/
Trump said: "Last month, MS-13 reportedly called for its members here on Long Island, where I essentially grew up." But he didn't finish that sentence.
Instead, he talked a bit about growing up nearby: 
And then he returned to the sentence about MS-13 and the cop...except this time, instead of saying, as his text did, that MS-13 reportedly called for a cop-killing, he said MS-13 *actualy killed a cop*, which did not happen.
Here's the full excerpt (fixed typo). This - the president inventing a cop-killing - got no coverage outside of Twitter, as far as I can tell from the internet.
Yep. Trump has made this claim or similar at least a couple of times. It’s on the long list of things he says that seem very obviously made-up but we can’t call false because there’s no proof.
