From my buddy Mike Finnigan

Preznit Pinocchio held an extremely rare, in-person press conference today. Here's Canadian journalist, Daniel Dale's summary: Trump begins by talking about how big the crowd of media is. Gets down to business by lying that Japan was not "willing to talk trade" for "years" until he came along. In fact, Japan negotiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership with the Obama administration. Trump lies that China "put out an announcement today" that they want him to lose the election. That did not happen. Referring to his tariffs on China, says he has imposed "25% interest." It is NOT interest, it is A TAX on Americans. Trump again upgrades his U.S. Steel lie, which started at "six plants," went to "seven plants," and then "eight plants." "U.S. Steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants." This will be news to US Steel. Says it's a "rare exception" that the U.S. doesn't have a trade deficit with a country. As of last year, the US had a trade surplus with more than half of all countries. Asked why he won't ask the FBI to investigate even though H.W. Bush asked FBI to investigate the Anita Hill allegations, he says: 1) They already investigated him. 2) "There was nothing to investigate." "It's a big, fat, con job. And they (Democrats) go into a room, and I guarantee you: they laugh like hell." Complains that the accusations against Kavanaugh were brought up too late "after the hearings." Asked if he's saying all three accusers are liars, he says, "I won't get into that game. I only tell you this: this is one of the highest-quality people that I've ever met...and these are all false, to me." Warns of a chilling effect on other men: "People are going to be scared, because we could say it about you." Democrats would vote against George Washington -- "and he may have had a bad past, who knows?...Didn't he have a couple of things in his past?" A male reporter says it would be great if a female reporter could ask a question about the Kavanaugh saga. Trump says, "What does he mean by that?...What does it mean? What does it mean?" Asked why he always sides with the accused man over the accuser, and whether it's because he's been accused, Trump says, "I wasn't happy with Roy Moore, let's get that straight. But Roy Moore was a Republican candidate, and I would have rather had a Republican candidate win." "If I have to find a replacement nominee, and it's a woman, people could accuse her of sexual assault also. Allegations can go the other way also, you understand that," he says. Asked again if he thinks all three women are liars, Trump says, "I can't tell you, I have to watch tomorrow." He adds of attorney Michael Avenatti, "Her lawyer is a low-life." Asked about sexual assault accusations against him, Trump says, "I've been accused. I've been accused. FALSE accusations." Trump says it's "four women." Then says "maybe more." Then says "four or five." (It's 20). Trump says a top expert on China, Michael Pillsbury, went on a "good show" he won't name - it was Tucker Carlson on Fox News - and said China has total respect for "Donald Trump's very, very large brain." Trump lies for the 8th time that Andrew McCabe got money from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe's PAC donated to his wife's Virginia election campaign. Trump lies again that he has spent $3.2 billion on the wall. He has received only $1.6 billion, none of it for what he has proposed. Trump says Kim's letters are "magnificent" in that they convey a desire to get things done. Trump lies again that Obama said he was "ready to go to war" with North Korea, this time adding for the first time, "You know how close he was to pressing the trigger for war?" There is no indication anything like this ever happened. Trump continues ranting about North Korea as if he were at one of his rallies, not taking a question for many minutes. Asked if he's concerned about the message he's sending to women watching by using the phrase "con job," Trump interrupts and says, "I've used much worse language in my life than con job. That's like probably the nicest phrase I've ever used."