(CNN) On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office for an interview with the conservative website the Daily Caller.

To their great credit, the Daily Caller released the full transcript of the conversation , allowing me to go through it line-by-line -- picking out the most, uh, interesting lines from the President. They're below.

1. "He was a gambler, you know, you don't see too many gamblers that have money."

Trump is referring to Stephen Paddock, the man who murdered 58 people in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017. (The FBI closed its investigation into the shooting earlier this week without offering a conclusion on Paddock's motivation.) Paddock was both a gambler and wealthy, Trump says. And away we go!

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2. "You know, I've stayed out of that whole situation so that -- because there was no collusion whatsoever."

What "situation" is Trump referring to here?

The question he was asked by the Daily Caller was whether he felt comfortable with the manner in which his one-time adviser Roger Stone was arrested last week . Does Trump mean he has stayed out of commenting on that arrest? Stayed away from Roger Stone? Stayed out of the Russia investigation? He has, of course, not stayed out of anything with the possible exception of not offering a stream of commentary on Stone's arrest. One thing worth mentioning here, too: NO COLLUSION.

3. "I'm speaking for a lot of people that were very disappointed to see that go down that way, to see it happen where it was on camera, on top of it. That was a very, very disappointing scene."

On the Stone arrest question, "disappointing" is an odd word choice here. To be clear: The indictment that led to Stone's arrest alleged that he had repeatedly lied to Congress about his contacts with WikiLeaks over emails stolen from Democrats by Russians -- and that he had urged other witnesses to lie to Congress about what they knew of the situation too.

4. "You have 29 people and you have armored vehicles and you had all of the other and, you know, many people know Roger, and Roger is not a person that they would have to worry about from that standpoint. I thought it was sad to see it."

What's remarkable about this -- and the fact that Trump in the next sentence says he would consider asking the FBI to look into its use of force in the Stone arrest -- is that the President has repeatedly urged law enforcement to be tougher in its dealings with criminals. "When you see these thugs thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You see them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don't be too nice,'" Trump said in a speech to police officers in 2017

5. "I guess they're well over 30 million dollars now on this Russian collusion hoax, and everybody knows it's a hoax. They've spent all this money. Nothing. No phone calls, no meetings, no nothing."

Trump's not that far off-base on the price tag -- $25 million has been spent on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe since it began in May 2017, according to the most recent filings . Where he REALLY misses the fact boat is in claiming that the Mueller probe has produced zero tangible results. To date, the investigation has produced 199 criminal counts against 37 people and entities. Seven people have pleaded guilty and four have been sentenced to prison. One -- Paul Manafort -- has been convicted by a jury of his peers. That's not nothing.

6. "You look at it, and you say, isn't that sad to have devoted this time, this energy over a -- you know, look, there's been numerous books written right now, including number one best sellers, calling it a 'hoax.'"

7. "I would say that I think after almost two years it certainly should be."

Trump is saying here that the Mueller probe has gone on too long already. By way of context, the special counsel investigations into Iran-Contra and Whitewater lasted more than six years each

8. "Process crimes or process, you know, questions, the answer is different than what you thought it might be and some people say they lost their memory or a lack of memory, which a lot of people can understand that too."

Trump is right that, to date, all of the crimes related to the 2016 campaign that Mueller has found have been people lying to Congress or federal investigators about who knew what when about contacts between the campaign and Russia. But here's the thing: 1) The investigation isn't over yet and 2) WHY WHY WHY are all these people in Trump's orbit willing to lie to federal authorities about their contacts with the Russians?

9. "I could've taken a much different stance, I could've gotten involved in this, I could've terminated everything. I could've ended everything. I've chosen to stay out of it."

10. "I ran a great campaign. I ran a campaign that now they say was better than that gentleman's [Andrew Jackson's] campaign in the 1800s and we did a great job."

They say that, do they? (For more on Andrew Jackson's campaigns, read this !)

11. "And we got 306 to 223 and that's that. Won states that nobody thought were possible to win. Remember the expression, 'he cannot get to 270.' And we got way beyond 270."

The 2016 election ended 814 days ago. Also, this is an answer to a question about whether Trump favors making the Mueller report public. Good times.

12. "Paul told me in the strongest of terms that, 'please sign this and if you sign this we will get you that wall.'"

Trump, in case you haven't noticed, is very, very good at scapegoating. In this case, he's blaming former House Speaker Paul Ryan for lying to him about wall funding in order to secure his signature on an omnibus spending bill.

13. "And then he went lame duck. And once he went lame duck it was just really an exercise in waving to people and the power was gone, so I was very disappointed."

Rather than saying "retired," I propose we say "went lame duck" in the future. As in: "Hey, did Cillizza leave CNN? No, he went lame duck. He and his wife are living up in the Catskills now."

14. "I don't want to say he lied. I think he probably meant it at the time, I guess. I hope. So I don't call that lying."

"It's not a lie if you believe it." -- George Costanza

15. "You know, I made many statements, many promises."

Fact Check: True!

16. "I'm going to be announcing the exact numbers but I'll have over a hundred miles of wall either built or under construction between new and renovated."

Not true. As PBS' Yamiche Alcindor noted on Twitter : "President Trump keeps saying, 'The wall is getting built.' Fact check: This is false. No construction has begun on the wall President Trump promised. The President said he would be going to a "ground-breaking' for the wall around the time of SOTU and that hasn't happened."

17. "We have a tremendous amount of money right now to build a wall. We're building the wall."

Again, no.

18. "I hope that she's healthy, I hope she's happy, and I hope she lives for a long time."

Trump's response here to a question on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is -- dare I say it -- presidential.

19. "Well, I've been very religious."

20. "I've been told, and I don't know that that's true, I would be surprised if it's true, but a lot of people said that list was one of the reasons I won."

This is true. As I wrote at the time , Trump's decision to release a list of judges he would consider for any Supreme Court vacancy was hugely important in rallying conservatives to him.

21. "The world is not doing well and we're going great."

Trump on the global situation: America :) Rest of world :(

22. "Coach Belichick endorsed me, you remember that?"

23. "I was very pleased that he called me to thank me for helping him with Canada and yeah, it looks good."

Donald Trump is pro-NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. So, there's that!

24. "I feel very badly for Louisiana because that was maybe the worst call I've ever seen but I guess there's nothing they can do about that. And you might say it, I feel badly for Louisiana."

25. "It looks like Elizabeth Warren has not caught on like they thought she would. She fell into a trap. It's called the Pocahontas trap."

"The Pocahontas Trap?" Is that a Disney flick?

26. "The truth is there are some I'd love to run against."

Donald Trump on 2020 Democrats: "Some I'd love to run against." This feels like the right place to stop.