White House Walks Back Declaration Of COVID Victory: ‘That Was Poorly Worded’ | Talking Points Memo

Poorly worded.

Unbeknownst to most, that banner on the aircraft carrier was supposed to say “Mission So Far Mostly Good, if you Think this Whole War Thing is a Good Idea, Anyway!”

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OK guys so who is Anonymous going to be? Supposedly he/she/they are going to reveal themselves today, quite possibly on CNN at 4:00.

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And that’s just from within the White House.

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Sean Spicer

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“Poorly worded” is what you get when 98% of the campaign and White House staff is 20-year-old interns who started working on this in September.

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You’ve expanded his field of concern way beyond reality. Victory is Trump and Trump is Victory.

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Oh, and let’s not forget “based on fact”…

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“The intent was to say it is our goal to end the virus,” Farah added, in a complete reframing of the wildly false statement.

‘We meant to tell the truth but, well, lies came out instead. You know how it is.’

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Nikki Haley, who thinks it will save her career.

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Not sure how I forgot that!

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So, some outright lies are so outrageous and obvious that even the Trump admin can’t stick with them once they get past the RW media filter.

“Poorly worded” in Trumpese Is anything they can’t get away with pushing.

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In other news the White House Communications sent out a news release congratulating the South for winning the Civil War and commenting on how great it was when Robert E. Lee accepted Ulysses S. Grant’s surrender at Gettysburg, PA, just like Trump will do to Biden in Pennsylvania.

Their new web ad shows Trump walking off into the sunset as he looks out East over the shores of the N.C. Outer Banks to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Well the White House is a superspreader area. .

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The funerals would have taken time.

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Paraphrasing our old pal Ron “Zig-Zag” Ziegler?

Can’t say they don’t respect (Republican) norms and traditions.

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Looks like it’s Miles Taylor. Oh well.

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… but he would have been the center of attention. Plus he could have held the funerals at one of his properties and charged the taxpayers a mint!

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Mystery solved.

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Poorly worded? Chronic quality issues, for sure. In fact, quite terminal.

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The White House should just admit their fake COVID victory was a stupid dumb LIE!