Ahead of the media blitz sure to accompany the release of former FBI Director James Comey’s new memoir, the Republican National Committee is preparing a response, complete with a website and talking points, in an attempt to discredit Comey and his book.
The website, lyincomey.com, is strewn with quotes from prominent Democrats bashing Comey after his July 5, 2016 statement on the FBI’s investigation into then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, punctuated by black and white photos of the former FBI director looking shifty.
“Comey is a liar and a leaker and his misconduct led both Republicans and Democrats to call for his firing,” RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel said in a statement to CNN.
According to the Washington Post, the website is just one prong of the RNC’s attack plan, which also involves a “war room” to respond to Comey’s TV appearances, an ad campaign, and an organized movement to send out Trump spokespeople to rebut Comey’s statements on different shows.
The White House has signed off on the RNC’s plan to attack the former Republican, CNN reports. It’s a sign of the intense anxiety administration officials feel about Comey’s press tour, and about President Donald Trump’s possible reaction to it.
The memoir is likely to paint an unflattering portrait of Trump and his interactions with Comey, who he fired nearly a year ago. Comey was heading the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, an investigation with which Trump was becoming increasingly frustrated, reportedly describing it as a “cloud” hanging over his presidency. The dismissal led Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint Special Counsel Robert Mueller to oversee the probe.
Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” is slated to be released on Tuesday; Comey will begin his press tour with an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday evening.
This is just such weak fucking sauce. This is the best they could come up with? And are you sure the angle you want to go with is lack of truth, when your dotard leader dribbles ten falsehoods out of his pie-hole before his morning cheeseburger?
And you’re going to do it by hoping everybody will flock to your #branded website?
Truly, Trumpism has seeped through the entire party. The whole thing is moldy. America needs to clean out its fridge.
This week: repugnican ‘war room’ against JComey.
Next week: repugnican ‘war room’ against PrAYN.
Will the GRU be sending military advisors?
Ronna Romney McDaniel - the human embodiment of the fruit of the poisonous tree.
It’s both fascinating and repellent to watch a once-proud political party drive a stake through its own heart.
The GOP is going to spend a generation in the political wilderness because of its wholesale embrace of Trumpism—and because of the Republicans’ utter lack of respect for the US Constitution and the rule of law.
The GOP stopped being the party of Lincoln about 50 years ago.
Now it isn’t even the party of Reagan.
It’s just the party of Losers now.,