President Donald Trump doesn’t lie and hasn’t lied to the American people, said former White House Chief Strategist and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon Sunday on This Week.

Guest host Jon Karl played clips of the President promising never to lie before saying to Bannon point blank that this was a campaign promise the President “obviously broke. He has not always told the truth.”

“I don’t know that,” replied Bannon. “From what I’ve seen, he has.”

Karl asked him again, “you think the President has never lied?”

“Not to my knowledge, no,” Bannon said again. Then he joked “except when he called me ‘Sloppy Steve.'”

After some back and forth, Karl repeated again, “he says things that aren’t true all the time.’

“I don’t believe that,” said Bannon. “I think he speaks in a particular vernacular that connects to people in this country.”

Bannon goes on to make his point that the institutions of government are “rotten to the core” and must be investigated.

Earlier in the segment he also said the investigators were rotten and should be investigated by different investigators.

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