Republican National Committee spokesman and incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on a Friday conference call that there is “nothing scheduled” between President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin with regard to the Obama administration’s Thursday announcement of new sanctions against Russia.
“Does the President-elect have any plan to talk to Russian President Putin about what happened yesterday during the transition, or is that something that somebody else from the senior staff is going to do? Could you just tell us what the next step is in any kind of communication with Moscow?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked.
“There’s nothing scheduled for this time,” Spicer replied. “The priority right now is for the president to get an update next week from the intelligence committee.”
Spicer said that Trump plans to attend a New Year’s Eve event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida with his wife Melania Trump and their son Barron. The President-elect will return to New York for transition meetings on New Year’s Day.
In a statement Thursday evening presumably responding to the announcement of the sanctions, Trump said that it was “time for our country to move on to bigger and better things,” but that he “nevertheless” would “meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation.”
“The priority right now is for the president to get an update next week from the intelligence committee.”
I think Josh is probably right again. Trump is a genuinely unaware floater who drifts about in a fog of easy living surrounded by sycophants clamoring for his attention and approval and the piece of his pie that might accompany it. It may very well be that he had no fucking clue what someone like Manafort or others might have been up to, and his sudden concern for getting an intelligence briefing on it all suggests he might be very concerned about what the evidence really shows and how it might connect to him. Granted, this could be him showing concern that the evidence actually implicates him, but if that was the case, I think his play would be a continued vehement blanket denial of it all, not what appears to be him conceding the issue.
“There’s nothing scheduled for this time,” Spicer replied. “The priority
right now is for the president to get an update next week from the
intelligence committee.”
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By next week (or maybe leater on today) there will be a different crisis to deal with and this one will be old news.
Jeebus…we are sooooo fucked.
Indeed! The Traitorous Daughterfucker already has his marching orders.
On CNN right now some spokesman for the Orange Disaster is saying “It’s time to move on from this”… So like I said, by later today this will be old news and trump’s “intelligence” briefing from the committee will be pointless to him.
BTW
Why should anything be “scheduled”??? Trump isn’t in office yet (thank the Maker)
He just means there’s nothing scheduled by Trump.
Putin is the one who knows the schedule.