The Mooch: Intelligence Committee "dropped the dime" on Hicks for being honest about lying

[Miles Archer]

Asked about Hick’s admission that she had told “white lies” in an effort to defend the president, Scaramucci took offense by saying everyone lies and that the real problem was that someone on the Intelligence Committee leaked her confession.

“Let’s start with white lies,” Scaramucci told the New Day host.”Tell me a person that hasn’t told a white lie. I will identify that person as the biggest of liar in the room. She’s in a closed-door session, they’re asking her stuff, it’s under oath and so is the integrity of every sentence, every syllable.”

“They asked if she told any white lies, and she said ‘yes,'” he continued. “Then they pick up the phone and drop the dime on her. It’s a closed session and it is unfair. It is in strict confidence, now they are trying to colorize this woman, who is an extremely gifted professional, as a liar. So I submit to everybody else, hold a mirror to your face and tell me you haven’t told a white lie.”

“But qualifying your critique of that, is the idea that she said nobody on this team met with any Russians — we know that’s untrue,” Cuomo shot back. “She should have known it was untrue when she said it. I don’t count that as a white lie.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/cnns-chris-cuomo-kneecaps-scaramuccis-defense-hope-hicks-lied-russia-meetings/

[EffieBlack]

1. Why is he still talking?

[Me.]

2. Exactly

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. When lying becomes the norm

A damn sad state of affairs.

Media just as bad

Untruths
Not exactly correct

And any other word/words rather than

The president or staff lied.

[Nitram]

12. That's right. Lying is standard practice in the Trump Administration.

Even when there is nothing to hide.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. So she told the truth about lying.

Up is down.

[spanone]

5. hey mooch, they're calling her a liar because she admitted she lied. now get the fuck off teevee.

[BoneyardDem]

6. time and place...dickwad

(1)4 year old's pet got hit by a car who's driver decided to run over the pet twice.....little while lie = necessary

(2) President lies to the nation yet again, Hicks reinterpreting, authors press release......nasty, lying, enabling, sycophant = not helping, possible illegal obstruction of justice.

I see a difference. That Mooch cannot see a difference, disqualifies him from any public office.

[blake2012]

7. He fits the classic description of sleazeball

[politicaljunkie41910]

8. Someone needs to tell the "Mooch" that she wasn't fired for telling a "white lie", she quit.

Now if she 'quit' because she was concerned that Mueller was going to inquire into what other "white lies" she's told to Mueller's team, that's a different story. Besides she says herself that this was something in the making prior to her appearance before the intel committee. Probably another "white lie".

[gratuitous]

9. Look for Sarah Sanders at today's presser to announce

"I'm the pretty one NOW!"

[redstatebluegirl]

10. I thought his 15 minutes were up!

[maxsolomon]

11. He's got a point, but he's wrong

Lying is a tool of Statecraft. There are things that any Administration must deny at times. Even saints like Obama had to withhold truth, and had staff that had to withhold truth.

And the press knows it. The public knows it. But there are degrees of lying that are beyond the Pale. This Administration lies as a matter of policy. They lie when there's no need.

Hicks didn't leave because she lied. She left because she admitted lying, and that crosses the line with Trump and his Roy Cohn techniques. He put her in the abuse cycle one too many times.

The fish rots from the head.