“These things, just because you say them, they are not true”

“First of all, as a factual matter, on Monday, my show, covered Mr. Trump’s speech. OK? We did. We covered Mr. Trump’s speech, we covered him there. And we did cover Hillary Clinton’s emails,” Tapper told Manafort.

Manafort said that Trump had been talking about his economic message “all week,” but that Tapper only covered it for one day.

“And you covered this aside about the Second Amendment for three days. I mean, come on! There is not a comparison here,” Manafort said.

“And Mr. Trump bears no responsibility for his campaign being off message?” Tapper asked. “His comments about the Second Amendment had nothing to do with why we were not covering the economic message?”