As he did last month with his first major foreign policy speech, Trump pegged his claim to a 2004 Esquire interview. “I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning – a major difference between me and my opponent,” Trump said before quoting at length from the Esquire interview.
In response, Esquire pushed back, noting first that “Trump’s big point throughout the speech and this entire campaign has been that he was always opposed to the war — even before it began,” then that “this claim has been debunked (over and over again), by multiple fact-checkers, magazines, and newspapers,” and finally that “Trump came out against the war in Esquire almost a year and a half after the invasion began, when the situation on the ground had begun to deteriorate and popular support for the war was sinking.”...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/his-long-con-trumps-lie-about-iraq-war-just-excerpt-greater-deception
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