Discussion: White House: 'The President Had No Knowledge' Of Fox's Seth Rich Story

The Fox News contributor who filed the lawsuit against the network, Rod Wheeler, alleged, among other things, that the Trump donor and fellow Fox News contributor Ed Butowsky tried to pressure him by sending a text message: “Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It’s now all up to you.” Butowsky told NPR he was joking with Wheeler, and never sent the story to Trump.

Highly credible. This administration is one big joke. In atrocious taste.

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Yeah, that’s Bullshit too.

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"He met with members of the media, I don’t find that to be a strange thing. "

LOL! Classic misdirection/playing deliberately obtuse. You know, because it’s the fact that he had a meeting or spoke with the press that’s the issue, not the content of the conversation…

Sorority Sarah strikes again.

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Must have been a Phi Mu. I remember when I was in college.
“Rattle, Rattle, Rattle, Here come the cattle…Phi Moooooooooooooo!”

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Worst. Denial. Ever.

Your staff, your facility, but not your problem.

The buck stops somewhere over there.

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Oh yeah and ‘the checks in the mail’. How much BS do you think we can ‘buy’ Sarah???

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Here we go again…The 5 Stages of WH Bullshit Responses;

  1. “The President had No Knowledge” of Fox’s Seth Rich Story.

  2. “The President had Knowledge” of Fox’s Seth Rich Story but did not approve or edit anything.

  3. “The President had Direct Knowledge and contributed to” Fox’s Seth Rich Story, but that’s OK and normal.

  4. “The President had Direct Authorship of” of Fox’s Seth Rich Story and will no longer talk about it!

  5. “We will no longer answer any questions about Fox’s Seth Rich Story and BTW, the President deserves an Emmy for it!”

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Good to know that everything has calmed down at the White House and the staff is back to cooperatively sucking each other’s cocks.

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Since Trump and the White House have been truthful in most things, I totally believe them on this.

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Butowsky told NPR he was joking with Wheeler,

Every peccadillo that these GOP reactionaries get entangled with is always passed off as a “joke” or “Oi! We woz only jokin”.

Amazing for people for whom a sense of humor is as far remote as Cygnus X1.

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Why would they be meeting with Trump representatives to inform them about a story about a DNC staffer? Is that standard journalistic practice to inform people who are not mentioned in the story? If they asked for comment and there was no comment, don’t they usually say that? They did indicate that the FBI declined comment.

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Black holes can be “leaky” too!

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A bit like claiming Gov. Christie had no knowledge of the Bride fiasco. It was done for him and he alone would benefit from it but of course he was out of the loop. As a result of that slick trick Christie is in the tank, more unpopular than Brownback, and done in public work. Because NO ONE believes he knew nothing about that damn bridge. I’d like to think the same will happen to Trump. This story will adjust as the facts come out and only the hardcore 33% will hang with “he did not know” or “its the Democrats”. At some point someone in that chaotic WH is going to notice they spend way to much time defending Trump. Everyone else has. One more drip to the drip drip drip chain.

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No stranger than walking into a bank and then leaving with a sum of money. Lots of people do that.

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You know, Sarah, there’s a fable, written by a guy called Aesop, about a boy who repeatedly cried “Wolf!” Now fables have morals, and many people think that the moral of this story is that you should always tell the truth. But that’s not it at all. The real moral is that you only have a certain amount of credibility, and if you use it up frivolously, you won’t be believed when it’s really important that people believe you.

Think about it.

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“The President didn’t have knowledge of the story. The White House didn’t have any involvement in the story.”

…or Jr.'s explanation of his meeting with Russians at Trump Tower to talk about…adoption! Yeah! That’s it! Adoption!

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Leave Blutarsky alone. The guy never did nothing to nobody.

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Absolutely. We should reach the fifth stage just about by Friday.

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