Following President Donald Trump’s directive to release House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) anti-FBI memo Friday afternoon, the White House released a statement saying Trump has “great respect” for the law enforcement and intelligence community.
“This decision was made with input from the President’s national security team —including law enforcement officials and members of the intelligence community, for whom the President has great respect,” she said. “He is especially grateful to the hardworking rank-and-file public servants who work every day to keep America safe and uphold our laws while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans.”
The statement comes after Trump decided to release the memo that his own Department of Justice and FBI Director warned him against releasing, saying they had “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
Trump has spent months denigrating the FBI and making claims about an anti-Trump bias within the agency.
Read the full statement from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
“Earlier today, President Donald J. Trump declassified a memorandum from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The memorandum raises serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI to use the Government’s most intrusive surveillance tools against American citizens.
“This decision was made with input from the President’s national security team—including law enforcement officials and members of the intelligence community, for whom the President has great respect. He is especially grateful to the hardworking rank-and-file public servants who work every day to keep America safe and uphold our laws while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans.
“Minority members of the Committee have reportedly drafted a separate memorandum. The Administration stands ready to work with Congress to accommodate oversight requests consistent with applicable standards, including the need to protect intelligence sources and methods.”
Utmost respect. But seriously, stop investigating the president for treason or we will smear you like only Republicans can. We’re going to dig our way out of this hole.
As long as they stay in their place - that is, jailing, killing, or deporting people of color.
Also, turning blind eye to criminal behaviors by people named Trump.
Dude, the fat-shaming is gross. Dumb and lying is plenty to work with.
“Respect” is what the dotard thinks it’s called when you put your glasses back on.
C’mon, SHS, we both know the concept is foreign to him. He doesn’t respect his own wife. He doesn’t respect his own children. Sure as shit he doesn’t respect you.
I really wonder what all those jolly Giuliani Time guys in the New York office are making of all of this. Are they totally down with being Il Douche’s secret police, or do they take that “Rule of Law” stuff at all seriously?