They think they are so clevah!
by digby
I knew this was their gambit. It is so, so lame:
During a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, Conway managed to look into the camera and claim with a straight face that Trump isn’t under under FBI investigation after all.
Conway repeatedly referred back to a part of the letter Trump sent to Comey where Trump writes, “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.” (Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from any Trump-Russia investigations after it was revealed he lied about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.)
“Let me repeat that the president has been told by the FBI director that he is not under FBI investigation, that is right in the president’s letter,” Conway said.
Cooper, incredulous, replied with, “This White House is under investigation, the people around the president are around investigation — you would agree with that, yes?
“No I don’t, I know that some are obsessed with the word Russia — the president is not under investigation, I’m around the president, I’m not under investigation,” Conway said. “I can name many people in that same situation.”
That’s right. The president saying in the letter that Comey told him he wasn’t under investigation is supposed to render him innocent of the charge that he fired an FBI director who was investigating him. It’s embarrassing, especially delivered with Conway’s snotty sneer.
This is serious business and they’d better sober up.
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