WH: Sharing Baseless Report On British Spying On Trump Wasn't An Endorsement

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MARCH 17, 2017, 12:42 PM EDT

The White House on Friday said that it never intended to lend credence to a Fox News commentator's baseless remarks supporting President Donald Trump’s claim he’d been wiretapped by reading those remarks aloud in a press briefing.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday read a series of media reports that he said backed up Trump’s wild allegation, including Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano's claim that GCHQ, Britain’s spy agency, eavesdropped on Trump on former President Barack Obama’s behalf.

The GCHQ issued an angry denial of that “utterly ridiculous” allegation, and the U.S. government reportedly apologized to British Prime Minister Theresa May for Spicer repeating the claim.

The White House said in a statement Friday that Spicer was “simply pointing to public reports, not endorsing any specific story,” according to a pool report.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-not-endorsing-report-british-spying-read-press-briefing

[louis-t]

1. Fucking Amateurs

[dalton99a]

2. More bullshit. Keep spinning.

[lagomorph777]

3. Of course it was an endorsement.

It's bizarre that they expect people to drink the sewage that Agent Orange and Angry Spice pour out daily.

[left-of-center2012]

4. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell n/t

[Javaman]

5. the backtrack white house.

making excuses for the orange menace daily.

[FuzzyRabbit]

6. " . . . it never intended to lend credence . . ."

The White House on Friday said that it never intended to lend credence to a Fox News commentator's baseless remarks

Right! That's why they keep repeating over and over those "baseless" remarks. So people will forget them. If you repeat something, that makes people forget. I say again, if you repeat something everyone will forget about it. So if you want people to forget about something, keep repeating it. Over and over.