Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Thursday night tried to defend ex-President Donald Trump’s mishandling of White House documents by comparing it to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripping up Trump’s widely distributed 2020 State of the Union speech.
The old everybody is doing it defense.
“When a lot of that was actually happening with Hillary Clinton, there was actually an investigation. There were subpoenas,” he said.
What stupidity. How’s he going to walk this back after the investigation into recordkeeping goes public and the subpoenas start to fly?
There is no low to which these people won’t sink. Lock ‘‘em all up.
meadows continues to advance the republican belief that gibberish and cogent argument are equally compelling. It’s just a matter of preference, you see.
Mark Meadows has stepped up and demonstrated that he is even more stupid that had previously been reported. Wow!
The copy of the speech that Pelosi tore up on national TV was not a Presidential document. or record. It was but one of perhaps hundreds of copies of a document that had been made public. If Markie is having trouble finding his copy of the speech he can just google it and a copy will appear. Not so with Presidential documents torn up by Little Donnie Short Fingers.
He doesn’t have to, his supporters only listen to him.
Weakest. Defense. Ever.
Sorry, but I’ve officially had enough. Just charge the f***er and take him to court.
“Those documents, I can tell you, we couldn’t find those either and yet, somehow, she got a pass,” he added.
So, Meadows, Trump, and the entire WH staff “couldn’t find” a copy of the SOTU address that Nancy had torn up on national TV? Can’t these people go to the independent nation of Texas and leave us alone?
As Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University might say, Mr. Meadow’s response has the right ‘tone’ (Angry dismissal of Dems). The actual words he uses are almost irrelevant.
False equivalence the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.
It must be nice to spout bullshit on Newsmax coz you know the audience has no clue of the difference between ripping up a courtesy copy of a speech and destruction of evidence by diverse methods including bodily consumption and drug user-like toilet flushing.
The idiocy of Meadows’ response! The cult will nod. The press will yawn. The corrosion of political discourse will continue apace. Mark Meadows was The Chief of Staff for a President of the United States. This is what he’s made of.
“Foghorn Leghorn” Meadows, he of the stentorian bass bellow, really is dumb as dirt. And he assumes that all of us are even dumber.
Lock him up. He oversaw tfg’s document shredding, his mishandling of classified, and quite possibly the packing of the Top Secret and other, miraculously un-shredded, documents. Well, you can get a higher price for them if they aren’t ripped up.
The two wrongs makes a right defense. Never worked with my parents, but then I had good upbringing.
Well, it works with The Base, and on Fox.
““When a lot of that was actually happening with Hillary Clinton, there was actually an investigation. There were subpoenas,” he said.”
If a True Scotsman takes a shit in the woods, does a nonsense illogical excuse by a flunky Chief of Staff still stink?
Why yes, it does.
Reminds me of the lament of Prof. Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady:
“Why is logic never even tried?”
(“A Hymn to Him”)
Meadows is probably not really as stupid as Gohmert (though he sounds so here), but he certainly thinks his audience/supporters are.
“When a lot of that was actually happening with Hillary Clinton, there was actually an investigation. There were subpoenas,” he said
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/us/politics/state-dept-inquiry-clinton-emails.html