Sad, sad Spicey
by digby
How much more can he debase himself I wonder?
White House press secretary Sean Spicer returned to the podium to brief reporters on Monday, but the briefing remained off camera and out of the public eye.
The White House has not held a televised briefing since June 29. It was Spicer’s first time addressing reporters in the briefing room since June 26.
Here are the key moments from his return to the podium, which lasted about 30 minutes.
Spicer defended Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to meet a Russian lawyer last year in hopes of collecting opposition research about Hillary Clinton.
But his defense of the meeting became convoluted.
“It is quite often for people who are given information during the heat of a campaign to ask what that is, that’s what simply he did,” Spicer said. “The president’s made it clear through his tweet. And there was nothing, as far as we know, that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for a discussion about adoption and the Magnitsky Act.”
Emails released by Trump Jr. show that the meeting was planned with the intention of obtaining damaging information about Clinton.
That is just pathetic.
And then there’s this:
Spicer defended Trump’s family members for manufacturing some products overseas, despite the fact that this is Made in America week at the White House.
“There are certain things that we may not have the capacity to do here in terms of having a plant or a factory that can do it,” Spicer said. “Some industries, some products may not have the scalability or the demand here in this country. … Think about all of the things that we buy everyday, of course there’s a market because we depend in this country for so many goods and services, some of which are made in America, some of which aren’t.”
“Obviously we want to create an environment in which more things are made here, more things are exported from here,” he added.
Fergawdsakes.
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