White House fires back at Graham: 'Hes been an outlier for years

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/The Hill

The White House hit back at Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) comments calling White House aide Stephen Miller an "outlier" on immigration, using the same phrase to describe Graham's stance on the topic.

"As long as Sen. Graham chooses to support legislation that sides with people in this country illegally and unlawfully instead of our own American citizens, we're going nowhere. He's been an outlier for years," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement Sunday night, according to several reports.

Graham had used nearly identical terms to describe Miller on immigration earlier in the day.

"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going nowhere," the senator told reporters.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-fires-back-at-graham-he%E2%80%99s-been-an-outlier-for-years%E2%80%99/ar-AAuZvlT

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It is almost as if the White House is trying to prolong the shutdown, because it allows them to run with their blame immigrants for the shutdown campaign.

[msongs]

1. graham will crawl back for more til the day he becomes a permanent outlier nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Maybe Graham learned his lesson - that you can suck up to Trump all day

and brag about his impossible golf scores and try to be his friend, but in the end he'll stab you in the back. Of course, Graham knew what he was doing with all that sucking-up, but I think he thought it would get him somewhere.

[hibbing]

3. msn regurgitating this bs

Glad the liberal media is out in full force on this. Graham has taken the place of the mavericky Mcain, who always talked a good game, but in the end would always vote in line of the horrid policies of his party.

Peace

[benld74]

4. Who the heck is Hogan Higley????

[Zorro]

5. He's an up-and-coming administration dipshit

[Freethinker65]

6. Isnt he the WH communications guy that called Trump Superman a few days ago?

I think someone posted a pic on DU

[TeamPooka]

7. That's the dipshit.

[Eyeball_Kid]

12. That guy's suckin' like a vacuum cleaner.

[japple]

23. J. Hogan Gidley. Why does he remind me of Martin Sckrelli? Oh, it must be those

dead eyes.

[flotsam]

8. Don't worry Mr. President-

He'll never outlie you!

[thbobby]

9. Another episode in trumpworld

Africa has Shithole countries.
Paid the pornstar off, but claims no affair.
Causes government shutdown, but blames Dems. When Obama was president the buck stopped with him.
Stabs another ally in the back.

Melania must really love his money.
GOP must really love their power.

I cannot imagine a more horrible human. Even Hitler showed some loyalty to longtime friends (not Rohm). I guess they are very similar.

[OnDoutside]

10. MSM should be hitting Trump for his lack of leadership, saying Miller

is the real president.....he would hate that. Goad him into it.

[Eyeball_Kid]

13. As Trumpy rules by emotion, so is he lead by emotion.

His staff know that they can sway him to their liking if they make him scared. That's all it takes. That's Kelly and Miller's secret sauce: persuade Trumpy to fear something, and you've got him in your hip pocket. Then pair that with calling him "Superman" and you've got him eating out of your hand.

Isn't it amazing that it's become appropriate and sometimes fashionable to speak of the president in these terms? His pliability is emotionally-based, and apparently, he's blind to his being manipulated.

[OnDoutside]

17. That's unfortunately where it's at, and we've seen where Kelly got chewed by

Trump, by calling him uninformed. Let's use fake news back and start spreading it about Miller and Kelly !!!

[OnDoutside]

19. Morning Joe is currently doing EXACTLY as I thought they should...Trump's staff undercutting him

[lunasun]

11. No fan but at least he is outing who he sees has the last say & it ain't trump

Both Kelly and Miller are hard liners with Trump on a leash
I would assume most of trumps speeches are written by Miller esp. the rallies and policy promotional appearances

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

14. Whenever hit by the truth, this WH is like, "I know you are, but what am I?"

Stephen Miller in a previous life.

[Scarsdale]

22. Yeah, when he had

hair and a brain!! Too bad tRump does not know any competant people. He surrounds himself with snot-nosed know-it-alls who know nothing. Bird brained Ivanka is polishing her resume for her run at the WH. She will make a great president, with daddy's old crew helping her. (the gop members who do not bail before then!)

[Rene]

15. Miller needs to be banned from White House and frumpf access

His nasty ideas are all thruout drumpfs words and actions.....watching millions of angered citizens take to streets everywhere in the US to physically display their anger should show drumpf that his crappy advisors are dangerously wrong. Kelly needs to go also.

[Kristofer Bry]

16. Whereas Trump is Just a Liar

Has has been since he exited the womb.

[MBS]

18. I was also struck by how juvenile the premise is.

Dismissing someone for being an "outlier" is junior-high school stuff.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Spectacle of Pres attacking his own party. Trump can't lead. He can only delude the gullible. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. "prolong the shutdown"? Putin's social media bots working overtime discrediting Democrats.

Maybe the Mercers are working overtime now that they have disposed of Bannon.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. I would expect w/ all of the attention drawn on Miller, tRUMP is going to be pissed off w/ the ...

lack of media attention on himself and he'll go through another temper tantrum and fire these two (Kelly and Miller). Wouldn't surprise me a bit...

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

25. And destroy administration of government...

... especially services. Community health clinics have not been funded for over 3 months (as per Bernie), and now here in southeast South Dakota, the state offices are closed due to the snow storm we have right now. But rest assured, our GOP governor made sure that the state hospital/psychiatric ward make it to work regardless.

[enid602]

26. Putin

Putin really needs for this shutdown to take. He tried to kill the dollar 10 years ago by organizing the BRIC countries. That didn't work, but the shutdown might make international investors sufficiently skittish.

[lkinwi]

27. Republicans can keep on throwing crap at each other.

It can only help the Dems.

[apnu]

28. Take a victory lap Graham, you got a 'maverick' label from Trump, just like your buddy McCain

Aren't you happy?

Aren't you proud?

Now you too can be just like your pal McCain!

Maverick in name, water carrier by deed.

Thanks for all your work sir!

[Orsino]

29. Trump has been an out-and-out liar for decades. n/t