“I hardly know the man,” Trump insisted during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden. According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, only 15% of people believe that Trump did not ask former FBI Director James Comey for a pledge of personal loyalty. Data from HuffPost/YouGov pollYet, the most intriguing aspect of President Trump’s denial is its form, not substance. Trump’s peculiar denial implies that a loyalty pledge is some sort of intimate ask, perhaps reserved only for close relationships, not some stranger. The purported loyalty pledge came in the context of a private one-on-one dinner at the White House set up by the President.

Source: Forbes June 11, 2017 12:22 UTC