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This is a Supermarket Check out line Tabloid presidency!!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/spicer-trump-wiretapping-report-media-reports
ByMATT SHUHAMPublishedMARCH 13, 2017, 2:42 PM EDT
After another press conference in which he refused to provide any evidence for President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor wiretapped him, Sean Spicer acknowledged that Trump had cited media reports in a conversation about the charge with him.
Earlier in the press conference, Spicer was asked whether the President had shared what he claimed to know about the wiretapping with the Department of Justice.
I'm not going to get into what the President knew or didn't know prior to it. I think we've already commented on this multiple times, Spicer replied.
Then how, NBC's Hallie Jackson followed up later, did Spicer know that Trump meant to include multiple forms of surveillance when he put the word wiretapping in quotes in his original accusation?
In some cases I'll ask him, What do the quotes mean? and hell say Spicer began in response.
Did you ask him about this tweet? Jackson asked.
I did, Spicer replied.
What did he say, Jackson asked.
He said they were in quotes, its referring to surveillance overall, it was something that had been referred to in other reports, Spicer said.
So he cited other reports in his conversation with you? Jackson asked.
He did, yes, Spicer replied.
So is that what he was basing that tweet on? Jackson asked.
Im not as I just mentioned, good try, but Ive been clear on that, Spicer said, ending the conversation.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,044 posts)yellowcanine
(35,715 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Anyone else notice the exceedingly fawning and kind headlines run by the Enquirer and other tabloids about the Trump administration? Take a look next time you're in the supermarket, and remember the days of alarmist crapola about the Obamas and the Clintons. Heck, even George W. Bush got nicked a time or two. But Trump seems untouchable. We'll know the end is approaching when Trump starts getting the same treatment.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Their headlines for the past few months have been hideous in that regard; always fawning over Tangeranus, blatant lies about the Clintons and the Obamas.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)they spiked a story they paid the rights to , about a former playboy model claiming a 10mth affair with 45
http://time.com/4559610/donald-trump-national-enquirer-karen-mcdougal/
Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)I'm reminded of this quote from one of my favorite movies...
underpants
(183,164 posts)There's actually a lot of people doing it someone else who frequents the same grocery store that I do is doing it too - I've seen them turned around not by me
Last week actually was a negative, something about a Psych Eval. This week it was about Trump cleaning up Obama's mess. The back page was an ad for an Obama commemorative stein
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028779282
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Someone should really sit down with President Trump and explain the whole concept of putting things out for public consumption. The man's a blithering idiot with the self-control of a spoiled four-year-old on a sugar jag.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
7:02 AM - 4 Mar 2017
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