During a speech filled with lies, boasts, and bullying attacks that observers have come to expect, former President Donald Trump offered a rare moment of self-effacing honesty over the weekend to the audience at CPAC.
He brought up the conservative conference’s practice of holding a straw poll to see who attendees favor to be the Republican Party’s next presidential nominee — a contest which other polls suggest he still dominates. But while he was speaking, the poll hadn’t been finished yet, so he telegraphed exactly how he will react no matter the results.
“You have a poll coming out, unfortunately — I want to know what it is,” he said. “Now if it’s bad, I disown — I say it’s fake. If it’s good, I say that’s the most accurate poll perhaps ever.” Continue reading.