Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Just a reminder whenever Trump says “fake news!”

In the early 1980s, a magazine called 7 Days reported on the sales prices of condos in Trump Tower. They cited the prices from the official sales filings with the city.

Trump raged “lies!” and threatened to sue. Then, when...

2...he discovered that 7 Days was owned by a billionaire who wasn’t intimidated by Trump, “John Barron” callled the New York Post to declare that the other billionaires wife was begging Trump to have sex with her. After he, posing as his spokesman, did that, Trump then....

3...confirmed it with a sly, “can’t deny that” comment. The woman was then interviewed and she said Trump was an infantile pig.

Or...when he sued because he said a book misrepresented his net worth. He proclaimed “i lost business from that!” When asked under oath what...

4...business he lost, he said something along the lines of “how would I know? I lost it!” He also said he determined his net worth by “how I feel that day.” The case was thrown out. What’s amazing: at that time, records from Deutschebank show, Trump was worth about $700 mill...

5...and he was suing even though the boom did not go that low in its statement of his worth.

Trump lives in a fantasy land. Many of us who covered him used to debate in the 90s - is it an act or is he mentally ill? He’s mentally ill.

So, know this. “Fake news” type claims....

6....have been part of Trump his whole career. Anything that doesn’t praise him is fake. He is unbalanced. In other words, if trump screams “fake news” it’s probably a fake denial from a madman.