Italy’s prime minister says Trump made up a story about her supposedly begging him for something. She wouldn’t be the first

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/trump-italy-prime-minister-begged

After an Italian media outlet reported that President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had “begged” him for a photo at the G7 summit this week, Meloni quickly posted a response on social media. Trump, she said, had “completely fabricated” the story, and she was “shocked.”

One prominent case: the controversial one-on-one dinner Trump had with then-FBI director James Comey in January 2017. After firing Comey in May 2017, Trump said, “I think he asked for the dinner. And he wanted to stay on as the FBI head.” But Comey testified to Congress that Trump had invited him to the dinner, forcing him to cancel a planned date with his wife, and that Trump had brought up Comey’s future in the director job and demanded “loyalty.”

Who was right? Comey, according to evidence from Trump’s own White House. Special counsel Robert Mueller found that “substantial evidence corroborates Comey’s account of the dinner invitation and the request for loyalty” – and noted that the “President’s Daily Diary confirms that the President ‘extend[ed] a dinner invitation’ to Comey.”