Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE has falsely claimed he always opposed the Iraq War. It's just another claim widely debunked by numerous media fact-checkers who correctly report that, in fact, he originally supported the war.

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It is Trump's tendency to repeatedly bear false witness that led PolitiFact, one of the nation's leading independent fact-checkers, to characterize the "campaign misstatements of Donald Trump" as 2015's "Lie of the Year."

Old habits die hard. Trump is now citing an Esquire magazine story from 2004 to prove the proposition that he "always" opposed the Iraq War, which had begun more than a year before the Esquire story appeared. Don't miss the excellent story in The Hill this week titled "Esquire mag: Trump lying about opposing the Iraq war."

It gets worse for Trump. I followed the link to Esquire included in The Hill story, and came upon an earlier story in the magazine from Aug. 9 titled "Here's Six Unbelievable Minutes of Donald Trump Contradicting Himself" that was subtitled "No one argues with Trump better than Trump."

That story includes a six-minute video of Trump taking contradictory positions on multiple issues that is a must-see watch for every voter and journalist.

Watch the video, and share it with your friends, in which Trump offers extravagant praise of Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE, fiercely defends Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonGOP brushes back charges of hypocrisy in Supreme Court fight Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight Sunday shows - Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death dominates MORE from GOP attacks when he was president, supports universal healthcare and abortion rights, offers his famous and ghoulish impersonation of a disabled New York Times reporter, and takes various contradictory positions on issues that should earn Trump the nickname "Duplicitous Donald."

The video, comprised entirely of quotes from the candidate who bears no resemblance to a man who will "make America great again," is in the form of a mini-debate between Donald Trump and Donald Trump.

Perhaps NBC should have Matt Lauer, as penance for his ludicrous performance as host of the recent Commander-in-Chief Forum, devote a full morning of the "Today" show to a debate between Trump and Trump, and between Trump and various Republican leaders who are increasingly embarrassed by their support for him.

Voters would profit, for example, from a debate between Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) about Trump's repeated praise of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Trump, who praises what he calls Putin's "strong" leadership while he insults American generals whom he says "have been reduced to rubble," would lose such a debate with Ryan, who condemns Putin as an adversary of America and correctly warns that Russia appears to be using espionage to influence the American election.

Voters would profit by remembering another greatest hits moment from the Trump campaign with a debate between Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by Facebook - Washington on edge amid SCOTUS vacancy Murkowski: Supreme Court nominee should not be taken up before election Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE (R-Texas) about Trump's implication that Cruz's father was complicit in the assassination of President Kennedy.

What manner of man would stoop to this level of ridiculous lying?

On the subject of Trump debating Trump, how about a debate between the Trump who claimed to have hired private investigators who would prove that President Obama is not an American citizen, and the Trump who had to explain why his efforts produced a big fat zero?

Will a future Trump someday debate the current Trump and admit that a Russian dictator who is destroying freedom of the press in his country, and who imprisons political opponents while many others suffer premature and unexplained deaths, should be described by words other than "strong leader"?

So watch the video that Esquire posted, share it with your friends, and consider whether the star of this show should ever be commander in chief with power over the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines with his finger on the nuclear button and the CIA under his command.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas) and former Chief Deputy Majority Whip Bill Alexander (D-Ark.). He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics. Contact him at brentbbi@webtv.net.

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