I was going to say something about optics, but then I remembered pussy-grabbing and mocking the disabled and firing Comey and having Russian circle jerks in the Oval Office.
So I guess optics don’t really matter.
“Huh…hadn’t even thought of that. Thanks for the idea.”
Too bad.
We could have counted on Spicer telling us the opposite of what was really going to happen.
It’s not “won’t say” it’s “can’t say.” Trump won’t know what he’s going to do until the day after it’s done!
Please… PLEASE! block him from testifying. Honestly, I doubt Comey has an great bomb-shell/smoking gun revelations up his sleeve, and the backlash to the President actively obstructing the investigation into him, both in public opinion and Congressional oversight, will be breathtaking.
Nothing would make me happier than for the Trump administration to breath life back into the He-fired-Comey-to-hinder-the-investigation-into-Russia story.
Any question that doesn’t start “How awesome is” and ends “the *president” is OOB. Please adjust your expectations.
He also won’t say if he’s wearing pants
OOB Out of Box?
Mueller already knows what Comey knows, Sean.
You’re really not scaring anyone with the power to end you.
I’m not entirely clear on this - who would decide whether Trump can invoke executive privilege here?
What a bush league statement from Spicey…
Who’s your Vladdy Putin…
It would a strange twist of fate, that as Trump is roasted slowly, with information dripping like fat on a fire, it flames up and takes Putin down at home as well.
But then, I read Science Fiction as well.
What’s the point of these televised press briefings?
When you’ve lost David Gregory…
It would be a desperate move by a guilty man, if he tries to block Comey.
The White House attempting to declare “executive privilege” in this situation reminds me very much of Michael on The Office attempting to declare bankruptcy.
Problem there is that the Badmin is talking about doing away with briefings completely. Truthful, perjured or “no commented”, they sometimes have evidentiary/investigative value.
This puts Orange Julius in a great bind: he swaggers to the microphone and declares that he will invoke EP; he clearly loses that battle and looks like a weak-tit fool. Or he’s told by his adult handlers (whoever that is) that he’s dead to rights and has no claim to EP because Comey is a private citizen; made so by Drumpf’s own tiny hand. Either way, Tangerine Tito loses and must sit there and watch as Comey spills the black beans. This should be fun. It may take another few months of disasters, it may even be after the mid-terms, but Bronze Benito is going down (and maybe going to jail).
This administration does seem to have a bad case of verbal diarrhea. Across the White House on any average day you can hear “Shut Up! Just Shut Up! Oh god! not again!”
Or my favorite (Vulgar but incredibly necessary Language Warning)