Press Secretary Sean Spicer didn’t deny that the White House was the source of Devin Nunes’s information about Trump being wiretapped. Instead, he tried to direct media attention away from the Russia scandal.
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What is interesting about the exchange in the video above is that Sean Spicer never denied the accuracy of The New York Times story that the source of Devin Nunes’s information was two White House officials. Spicer told reporters that they were assuming it was correct, but he never denied that it was correct. The Press Secretary never attacked the report, but he did say that a White House that calls everything it disagrees with fake news would not comment on the NYT story.
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Spicer’s reaction was that of a White House that’s been caught. The White House doesn’t deny the story. They are trying to misdirect reporters away from Russia.
Press Secretary Spicer said, “Your obsession with who talked to who and when is not the answer here. It should be the substance.”
The substance according to Spicer is that Obama officials tried to harm the Trump administration by spreading the information around.
In other words, ignore our potential collusion with Russia, and pay attention to something that we think Barack Obama did.
Sean Spicer never denied The New York Times story, which is the strongest evidence yet that the White House has been busted.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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