" Brain dead" would be an apt description of those who cherry...

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    " Brain dead" would be an apt description of those who cherry pick the lead-in question, but fail to include the follow-up.



    Ocasio-Cortez: "Do you know -- to your knowledge, was the president interested in reducing his local real estate bills, tax bills?"

    Cohen: "Yes."

    Ocasio-Cortez: "And how do you do that?"

    Cohen: "What you do is you deflate the value of the asset and then you put in a request to the tax department for a deduction."

    Ocasio-Cortez:

    ‘To your knowledge did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company?


    Cohen:  "Yes"

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