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BootinUp

(47,141 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:17 PM Jun 2017

White House rebuffs Comey: 'The President is not a liar'

Source: CNN

(CNN) Accusations of lying whizzed across Washington Thursday as fired FBI Director James Comey concluded his bombshell session on Capitol Hill.

Comey himself suggested during his three-hour sworn testimony that President Donald Trump had a shaky commitment to telling the truth. The White House decried the accusation.

Meanwhile, Trump's outside lawyer insisted that it was Comey who lied when he detailed conversations between himself and the President, raising the suggestion that Comey committed perjury while testifying under oath.

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"I can definitely say the President is not a liar, and I think it's, frankly, insulting that question would be asked," spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters during an off-camera briefing at the White House.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/trump-james-comey-liar/index.html



And Nixon wasn't a crook. I hope twitter gets going on the iamnotaliar hashtag
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White House rebuffs Comey: 'The President is not a liar' (Original Post) BootinUp Jun 2017 OP
😂😂😂😂😂 nt helpisontheway Jun 2017 #1
Yeah, he's not a liar, and he's not Putin's puppet. Riiiight! Zen Democrat Jun 2017 #2
"no liar! no liar! you're the liar!" unblock Jun 2017 #5
Who you gonna believe, the White House... dchill Jun 2017 #3
there should have been a laugh heard around the world. barbtries Jun 2017 #4
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was "insulted" ... Jopin Klobe Jun 2017 #6
Great........ SergeStorms Jun 2017 #49
Bollocks... dae Jun 2017 #7
Yeah, I think we've heard this before... Wounded Bear Jun 2017 #8
Trump started his time in office by lying before God with his hand on the Bible. keithbvadu2 Jun 2017 #9
Sarah, darling, release the tapes that proves Comey perjured himself. Brother Buzz Jun 2017 #10
And President Obama really was born in Kenya. deurbano Jun 2017 #11
Thank God gibraltar72 Jun 2017 #12
Sounds eerily like "I am not a crook" George II Jun 2017 #13
"People have got to know whether or not their president is a liar. Well, I'm not a liar." The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2017 #14
Well that settles it. Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #15
Of all the statements to make DFW Jun 2017 #16
Yes he is. No he's not. Yes he is. No he's not. Yes he is. mahannah Jun 2017 #17
You keep telling yourselves that. neeksgeek Jun 2017 #18
Republican Pres Trump is not christian either. Presbytarians don't have to ask if they're christian. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #19
No liar! No liar! Tommy_Carcetti Jun 2017 #20
... BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #21
"The president is not a liar." sakabatou Jun 2017 #22
If that's the best they can do Phoenix61 Jun 2017 #23
i think they're lying again 0rganism Jun 2017 #24
Tapes... show us the tapes. C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #25
No, he didn't lie, the FBI didn't investigate the prostitute piss episode, that is true. The_Casual_Observer Jun 2017 #26
whizzed underpants Jun 2017 #27
Trump never tells the truth, what is sad is that half of this country still doesnt know that Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #28
Fine. He's a confabulator, a bullshit artist, a scammer, a conman, an unreliable narrator. politicat Jun 2017 #29
Oh right, and Nixon wasn't a crook either! BigDemVoter Jun 2017 #30
"I am self funding and will hire the best people, not the biggest donors!" DJT Facebook 4/3/2016 Freethinker65 Jun 2017 #31
Can I say: "Are you fucking kidding me?" Kleveland Jun 2017 #32
drumpf lies constantly! greatauntoftriplets Jun 2017 #33
Oh no, Penn Voter Jun 2017 #34
Washington Post: 100 days of Trump claims csziggy Jun 2017 #35
Let's got to the record, shall we??? Maeve Jun 2017 #36
Okay, he's not a liar. dawn frenzy adams Jun 2017 #37
Trump countered with a lie. WhiteTara Jun 2017 #38
the word Trump defines the word "liar" as Nixon defined the word "crook" Stuart G Jun 2017 #39
He's not a liar? So they're saying he's so stupid he actually believes all that bullshit he says. tclambert Jun 2017 #40
His tiny little fingers lie, at 140 characters a session. Historic NY Jun 2017 #41
They are quite brazen with their lying Zorro Jun 2017 #42
Reminds me of Nixon's I AM NOT A CROOK onetexan Jun 2017 #43
Yep DeminPennswoods Jun 2017 #50
Why are you slapping yourself? Why are you slapping yourself? truthisfreedom Jun 2017 #44
Lie, lie you know he does lie BHDem53 Jun 2017 #45
Cereal Lier trusty elf Jun 2017 #46
Yeah, yeah.. like the "white house" is going Cha Jun 2017 #47
Tapes or tax returns would shut this down immediately. Dave Starsky Jun 2017 #48
Today's cry:Pres not a Liar. Tomorrow's cry:Pres is not a crook. delisen Jun 2017 #51
thats will go down in history with I Am Not a Crook and I am Not a Witch samnsara Jun 2017 #52
Still soft balling it - "had a shaky commitment to telling the truth" Bucky Jun 2017 #53
Now that is funny. nt doc03 Jun 2017 #54
That's a powerful argument, "The president is not a liar." Nitram Jun 2017 #55
Great retort (sarcasm) rock Jun 2017 #56
FBI notes are called evidence Greensix1 Jun 2017 #57
Blue House Rebuffs White House ProfessorGAC Jun 2017 #58

unblock

(52,199 posts)
5. "no liar! no liar! you're the liar!"
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:24 PM
Jun 2017

no, really, it's the exact same defense he used against the puppet accusation!

barbtries

(28,787 posts)
4. there should have been a laugh heard around the world.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:21 PM
Jun 2017

nobody not even his biggest fans is about to suggest that the man is not a liar. are they? only these poor fucks trying to keep up appearances at the WH, which must be the most incredibly dysfunctional work place imaginable.

shudder

SergeStorms

(19,195 posts)
49. Great........
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 04:22 AM
Jun 2017

now I have that song by 'The Presidents of the United States' on a loop in my head. "She's lump, she's lump, she's lump, she's in my head" Thanks a LOT!

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
9. Trump started his time in office by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:29 PM
Jun 2017

Trump started his time in office by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.

He swore to uphold the Constitution and immediately broke that oath.

Emoluments

DFW

(54,358 posts)
16. Of all the statements to make
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:36 PM
Jun 2017

"The President is not a liar" is about the least truthful statement that has come from any Trump spokesperson, and there been some classic whoppers to compete with that.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
19. Republican Pres Trump is not christian either. Presbytarians don't have to ask if they're christian.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:42 PM
Jun 2017

Republican President Trump is an unrepentant habitual liar.

Phoenix61

(17,003 posts)
23. If that's the best they can do
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 05:03 PM
Jun 2017

is say Comey is lying they ain't got much do they. Twitler's own lawyers stated they never met with him alone due to his loose relationship with the truth. Sadly, I don't know that the repubs will care.

0rganism

(23,944 posts)
24. i think they're lying again
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 05:13 PM
Jun 2017

they'll lie about anything. they lie about petty small stuff every day that i'm honestly surprised they have time even to think about. why wouldn't they lie about the important stuff? it's what they do.

politicat

(9,808 posts)
29. Fine. He's a confabulator, a bullshit artist, a scammer, a conman, an unreliable narrator.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 05:33 PM
Jun 2017

Whatever word needs to be verboten, Sarah, we've got synonyms. We'll take your poor, fragile feelings under consideration.

Freethinker65

(10,010 posts)
31. "I am self funding and will hire the best people, not the biggest donors!" DJT Facebook 4/3/2016
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 05:39 PM
Jun 2017

Lie. Lie. Betsy DeVos.

I rest my case

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
32. Can I say: "Are you fucking kidding me?"
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 06:23 PM
Jun 2017

Get a life you stupid woman!

I don't know how a human being in 2017 could even say that with a straight face!

So, I guess that makes her a cow!

She's a Huckabee, so I guess we can't expect much in the brain cell department.

She is about as sharp as a bag of wet leather!

Maeve

(42,281 posts)
36. Let's got to the record, shall we???
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 07:26 PM
Jun 2017
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

The PolitiFact scorecard

True 19 (5%)(19)
Mostly True 50 (12%)(50)
Half True 60 (15%)(60)
Mostly False 82 (20%)(82)
False 134 (33%)(134)
Pants on Fire 65 (16%)(65)


Or maybe you prefer FactCheck
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/100-days-whoppers/
Donald Trump — whom we crowned the “King of Whoppers” when he was a long-shot candidate in 2015 — has held true to form during his first 100 days as president of the United States.

In his first hour as president, he painted a dark portrait of a crime-ridden America with a dismal economy. The next day he falsely denied that he had been feuding with the intelligence agencies, which days earlier he had compared to Nazi Germany’s.

He grandly boasted that his inaugural crowd was larger than Obama’s, and said his Electoral College majority was larger than those of any president since Ronald Reagan. Neither claim was close to the truth.

He doubled down on his baseless claim that massive voter fraud gave Hillary Clinton her popular vote plurality last year. Then he made a new and equally groundless claim that President Barack Obama had ordered his phones tapped during the campaign — and called for Congress to investigate, even though he could produce no evidence. He has claimed credit for jobs created (or saved) before he took office, and for getting China to stop currency manipulation that actually stopped years earlier.

And he has adamantly refused to admit error, sometimes piling new falsehoods upon old. When photos showed his inaugural crowd, though respectable, was far smaller than the one for Obama’s 2009 swearing-in, his press secretary recited bogus statistics on subway ridership as evidence that Trump was right. And when those statistics were quickly shown to be incorrect, another aide blithely dubbed the falsehoods as merely “alternative facts” — a phrase that has now entered the language as a euphemism for blatant and unrepentant falsehoods


Zorro

(15,740 posts)
42. They are quite brazen with their lying
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 09:48 PM
Jun 2017

They're doing incredible damage to the Office of the Presidency and our democratic institutions with their incessant dishonesty.

Traitorous Quislings one and all.

DeminPennswoods

(15,278 posts)
50. Yep
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 07:04 AM
Jun 2017

I know cameras/recorders will catch that moment when Trump blurts out "I am not a liar" and/or "I am not a crook".

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
48. Tapes or tax returns would shut this down immediately.
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 04:22 AM
Jun 2017

They would not only vindicate him but fully humiliate all the librul naysayers as the blatant liars he claims THEM to be.

Yet he produces neither. Go figure.

Bucky

(53,998 posts)
53. Still soft balling it - "had a shaky commitment to telling the truth"
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 07:41 AM
Jun 2017

No, Trump doesn't have "a shaky commitment to telling the truth." He is an amoral sociopath who blatantly lies in order to distract the public from him looting the national Treasury and working for a foreign power opposed to US national interests

 

Greensix1

(67 posts)
57. FBI notes are called evidence
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 11:09 AM
Jun 2017

The Courts have declared that the notes of an FBI employee are considered valid evidence. Trump's rants are not. A jury would find Comey's notes as evidence of Obstruction of Justice by Trump. If Trump Does have a video to prove his point he'd better come up with it soon.

ProfessorGAC

(65,000 posts)
58. Blue House Rebuffs White House
Fri Jun 9, 2017, 01:42 PM
Jun 2017

"Um, yes he is! I'm insulted SHS would say otherwise!"

(BTW: I live in a blue cape cod)

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