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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Releases Bonkers Statement Following Bombshell NYT Russia Report
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hit back after the New York Times dropped a bombshell on Friday night claiming that the FBI opened up a probe into whether or not Donald Trump may be working for the Russians. The inquiry was launched after Trump fired former FBI director James Comey.
“This is absurd,” the statement read. “James Comey was fired because he’s a disgraced partisan hack and his deputy Andrew McCabe who was in charge of the time is a known liar fired by the FBI. Unlike President Obama who let Russia and other foreign adversaries push America around, President Trump has actually been tough on Russia.”
.@PressSec responds to @nytimes report that the FBI opened an inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia: pic.twitter.com/sAzRn7TIMJ
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 12, 2019
Comey’s firing in 2017 is a focal point of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump attempted to obstruct the probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump and his allies have offered a series of changing explanations for his decision to fire Comey, which has complicated investigators’ effort to determine his intent.
The firing of Comey was reportedly used as justification for the investigation being opened, but FBI agents had already been concerned about the president’s ties to Russia, the Times reported.
The Russia investigation was taken over by Mueller when he was appointed special counsel.
“The fact that it goes back a year and a half and nothing came of it that showed a breach of national security means they found nothing,” president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the Times for its report.
Twitter had some thoughts:
Putin couldn’t have scripted it better himself.
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) January 12, 2019
That seems like a very professional response said no one with a junior high education or higher
— Doug Cubberley (@cfhs82) January 12, 2019
Blame Obama for everything? Not working. Guess what? Trump has been president for two loooong years.
— Susan A. Crawford ????????✈️ ❄️ (@GardenSage) January 12, 2019
an extremely amateur response, but not surprised. they are all flailing and it is glorious!
— Lynne????⚖️☮️ (@zoubisou62) January 12, 2019
Strip out all the Comey insults, and Sanders basic defense of Trump here, that he has "actually been tough on Russia" is just plainly untrue. He hasn't been tough on Russia. Not ever. Not in circumstances in which any other American president—R or D—would be. That's the rub. https://t.co/KZx0oCJ0sN
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) January 12, 2019
Sarah Sanders response on behalf of Trump to NYT story lashes out at Comey in rhetoric worthy of Nixon WH, late Watergate. If anything, less varnished.
A declaration of emergency now for anything short of natural disaster would surely inspire a firestorm. pic.twitter.com/aDGhRKU7HO
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) January 12, 2019
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