White House press secretary says Trump hasnt tried to disprove accusations
Source: BuzzFeed News
Posted at 2:59 p.m., Jan. 11
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the president-elect has fallen short of meeting the bare standard of transparency in proving that accusations lodged against Trump are false.
Earnest went on to compare the current accusations to the birther conspiracy theory stoked for years by Trump that president Obama was not born in the United States.
The conspiracy theories were propagated even in the face of significant, overwhelming, and convincing evidence, Earnest said, referring to the presidents birth certificate. He went on to say that Obamas administration sought to disprove the claims by providing evidence against it, whereas Trumps administration has taken a different approach.
Theres ample evidence they could marshal to make public, to refute those claims, those accusation they say are baseless, but they refuse to do so, Earnest said. That kind of secrecy only serves to sow public doubt. If you recall, during the campaign as the president-elect was refusing to release his tax returns, people were asking what hes hiding. People are asking that question again.
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ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Don't cave to the threats, hold their feet to the fire!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Show us the tax returns or die from the golden showers onslaught!
Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)I do believe they exist & I believe the Russian Government is holding such tapes as well as other damaging material over Trumps head blackmailing him.
Trump will do anything & everything to keep the Kremlin happy because as egotistical as Trump is and as much as he tries to convince Americans that he's a healthy well hung stud (ewwww) I truly believe that Trump would lose it if the world saw him for what he truly is an overweight perverted 70 year old man with long fake hair & a baby penis...
Sorry for those who are now picturing this..
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)Corey_Baker08
(2,157 posts)pbmus
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Dorian Gray
(13,517 posts)There isn't enough bleach in the world to clean my mind of this image.
BigDemVoter
(4,158 posts)Quoting Keith Olbermann. . . . "He CANNOT leave it alone!"
elleng
(131,292 posts)dhill926
(16,380 posts)keep up the pressure. Relentlessly. Until he fucking cracks...
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,720 posts)Andddd, here he is, with the cheering section:
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,885 posts)Right now I am hearing local media with panties in a wad about the release and reporting of that info. Yet they were completely MIA for fucking 8 years when lunatics like Drumpf and Arpaio and Orly Taitz hawked their idiotic birther and "madrassa" stories via press conferences, films, and books that the "media" eagerly reported on without a shred of fact checking.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)How long does he get to use the absurd, false, bull shit claim???