LieGate: This is how you should reply to Trump trying to gaslight America with bogus scandal
James Comey nails it. He explains it in his restrained and lawyerly manner.
Comey said late Thursday that claims by President Trump and his allies that the FBI improperly spied on his presidential campaign were made up.
“As best I can tell, it’s made up. I don’t know where he’s getting that from, honestly,” Comey told late night host Conan O’Brien during an interviewon Thursday night.
Asked if it was possible that there was a “spy” inserted into Trump’s campaign by an intelligence agency, Comey said, “I don’t find it possible and I know it not to be true.”
So does Rep. Adam Schiff, who is a bit more blunt.
So does Karine Jean-Pierre.
CNN contributor Scott Jennings tried to defend the investigation over President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that federal authorities planted a “spy” in his presidential campaign. But he received a verbal lashing from one of his fellow panelists.
White House lawyer Emmet Flood made an unexpected appearance at a classified briefing by the FBI and intelligence officials Thursday. But Jennings insisted there was nothing illegal about him showing up.
“It is made to seem like Emmet Flood showed up today and did something untoward,” he insisted. “… he showed up and said hello. He said hello.”
But MoveOn spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said whether Flood technically broke the law or not was besides the point.
She described Trump as a lying conspiracy theorist, who was using this issue to distract from Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
[Watch the segment at Raw Story, at the end of the article]
Oh, and there is this. Keep in mind that he says nothing about Trump’s bullpuckey nut instead legitimizes Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday after attending a classified briefing that he continues to support special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
McConnell told NPR that Mueller’s investigation and a separate probe by the Justice Department’s inspector general into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election will ultimately provide answers to a number of questions swirling around the presidential race.
“The two investigations going on that I think will give us the answers to the questions that you raise — the [inspector general] investigation in the Justice Department and the Mueller investigation,” McConnell told NPR.
“I support both of them, and I don’t really have anything to add to this subject based upon the Gang of Eight briefing that we had today, which was classified.”
Sure, Mitch brings up an Instector General probe that the trump Cult is counting on to “prove” the FBI is politicized, but that is looking more and more as if it will pan out and instead show that the agency is clean.
The bottom line, however, is that Mitch has passively rejected Trump’s narrative. And that’s actually a pretty big punch to the MAGA gut.
This is how you push back against Trump’s fraudulent tweets and conspiracy-mongering. Sure, his 28% dead-ender deplorable base aren’t going to listen, but the rest of the nation will. Start calling it LieGate. Period.
