And this is hardly the first time that one of the greatest memories ever has also proven to be one of the most convenient memories ever.

The reason Trump would downplay the memorability of the meeting is clear: Papadopoulos's proposal for a Trump-Putin get-together was revealed this week in unsealed documents from the Russia investigation, and that flies in the face of Trump's and his campaign's statements that they didn't talk to Russia during the campaign. Details of this meeting were also apparently forgotten by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose denials of contacts with Russians are now riddled with holes.

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But Sessions never claimed to have a historically superior memory; that would be Trump. And a brief trip down memory lane suggests that memory fails him at plenty of opportune times.

Some examples:

And in fact, even Trump's ability to remember his claims of having a fantastic memory are subject to this convenient memory block. Back in that 2015 deposition, when Trump said repeatedly that he didn't remember things, he was asked about another time that he had claimed to have one of the best memories in the world.

He didn't remember that.

“I remember you telling me, but I don't know that I said it,” Trump said, adding: “I don't remember saying that. As good as my memory is, I don't remember that.”