RNC Tries To Spin Comey Testimony: This Proves Trump Right!

Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel arrives before President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally at DeltaPlex Arena, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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The Republican National Committee on Wednesday tried to spin fired FBI Director James Comey’s prepared remarks for Thursday’s hearing, arguing that they simply prove the President right.

“President Trump was right,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement. “Director Comey’s statement reconfirmed what the president has been saying all along — he was never under investigation.”

The official GOP Twitter account, in apparent selective contradiction, tried to dismiss the entire statement as a nothingburger.

According to Comey’s prepared opening statement, released early by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the ousted FBI director will testify that he told Trump on three different occasions that he was not personally targeted by the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Comey will also testify that Trump asked him to pledge his loyalty and drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Trump and the White House have denied both allegations.

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  1. “President Trump was right,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement. “Director Comey’s statement reconfirmed what the president has been saying all along — he was never under investigation.”

    Called it.

    I knew the second I read Comey’s prepared statements this was the only thing they would zero in on, and this will be wall-to-wall from the Trumpeters and Fox “News”.

  2. Yet another bulletin from the GOP Flat Earth Society…

    Spin, baby, spin…

  3. Trying to find something of substance in Comey’s opening statement like

    Here, let me help you “an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship.”

  4. Is the RNC accepting the rest of Comey’s statement as accurate? Because you can’t pick and choose.

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