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
helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)unblock
(52,199 posts)no, really, it's the exact same defense he used against the puppet accusation!
dchill
(38,472 posts)or your lying eyes?
barbtries
(28,787 posts)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
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... how is it possible to insult a lump? ...
SergeStorms
(19,195 posts)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!
dae
(3,396 posts)He's a lying SoS!
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)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
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Simple, No?
deurbano
(2,894 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)it was off camera!
George II
(67,782 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,679 posts)Shell_Seas
(3,332 posts)DFW
(54,358 posts)"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.
mahannah
(893 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)But he's a liar.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,999 posts)Republican President Trump is an unrepentant habitual liar.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,174 posts)You're the liar!
BumRushDaShow
(128,872 posts)sakabatou
(42,148 posts)And I'm the queen of England!
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)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)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.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)Oh right, Trump was lying about the tapes, wasn't he?
Fucking liars.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)underpants
(182,774 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)Whatever word needs to be verboten, Sarah, we've got synonyms. We'll take your poor, fragile feelings under consideration.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)Freethinker65
(10,010 posts)Lie. Lie. Betsy DeVos.
I rest my case
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)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!
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)How could Huckabee Sanders say that with a straight face???
Penn Voter
(247 posts)he just has alternative facts. (extreme sarcasm)
csziggy
(34,136 posts)100 days of Trump claims
As of Trumps 100th day, we counted 492 false or misleading claims.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/
Maeve
(42,281 posts)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 Germanys.
He grandly boasted that his inaugural crowd was larger than Obamas, 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 Obamas 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
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)He's a big, fat, stinking, liar.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)This can't go on! The center can not hold.
Stuart G
(38,419 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)They're doing incredible damage to the Office of the Presidency and our democratic institutions with their incessant dishonesty.
Traitorous Quislings one and all.
onetexan
(13,036 posts)CROOKS & LIARS - 2 sides of the same coin
DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)I know cameras/recorders will catch that moment when Trump blurts out "I am not a liar" and/or "I am not a crook".
truthisfreedom
(23,145 posts)slap slap slap slap slap
BHDem53
(1,061 posts)His nose is as long as that ugly red tie.
trusty elf
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Cha
(297,154 posts)to own up to trump being a gd LIAR. lol
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)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.
delisen
(6,042 posts)Shades of Watergate.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Bucky
(53,998 posts)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
doc03
(35,325 posts)Nitram
(22,791 posts)Yes he is! No he isn't! Is! Isn't! Is!
rock
(13,218 posts)Got any notes, witnesses, and will you say so under oath. Comey did.
Greensix1
(67 posts)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)"Um, yes he is! I'm insulted SHS would say otherwise!"
(BTW: I live in a blue cape cod)