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Trump claimed he didn’t say “check out sex tape.” Here he is literally saying it.

by Emily Crockett
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At Sunday night’s presidential debate, Anderson Cooper asked Donald Trump whether he has the “discipline” to be a good leader, given that he literally sent late-night tweets encouraging Americans to “check out a sex tape.”

“It wasn’t ‘check out a sex tape,’” Trump said.

That’s … a lie.

Here’s the late-night tweet Trump sent about former Miss Universe Alicia Machado after the first presidential debate:

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