House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on Sunday said he hopes a report that President Donald Trump disparaged former FBI Director James Comey to Russian officials is not true.
Asked on ABC’s “This Week” to respond to a report that Trump told Russian officials Comey was a “nut job,” Chaffetz said, “Well, I hope that’s not true.”
“I don’t know if that was said or not said,” he said. “You would like, I would think, the President to kind of beat them over the head with the fact that if they did, the Russians, if they actually did interfere in any way, shape, or form, how wrong that is and how outraged America is on both sides of the aisle.”
The New York Times reported on Friday that Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak that Comey was “crazy, a real nut job.”
“I faced great pressure because of Russia,” Trump said, according to the Times. “That’s taken off.”
The White House did not dispute the accuracy of those quotes.
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"how outraged America is on both sides of the aisle.”
One of these days we may find out(in Politico) that Fox News has rejected a potential contributor after deciding that he or she possessed insufficient credibility.
Not today, but we seem to be getting closer and closer.
Your exit from politics cannot come soon enough.
They’ve learned not to deny anything Trump has said, or might have said.
They’re all like Valley of the Dolls, tranquilized sex dolls.
Exactly like.
I’m actually predicting that as an outgrowth of the so called sane moments from Shep and Chris Wallace Fox news will reject someone. As far as individuals are concerned, in some cases they don’t believe the stuff they say and can change stripes at any time, so the next thing you know that other Blaze guy might not be a wingnut.
When he was at CNBC I saw Dylan Ratigan interview Hillary and he was so nasty and impolite I bet that they’d never let him interview a Democrat again. He hired out to MSNBC and next thing you know, he wasn’t a conservative anymore. Supposedly only Hannity on Fox believes the S*** he spouts.
Trump managed not to sound like a complete retard. He was able to stick to a script for 1/2 hour HoW presidential.