White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday afternoon fiercely defended House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) visit to the White House complex last week to view intelligence reports purportedly showing President Donald Trump and his transition team were swept up in surveillance of foreign nationals.
“What occurred between Chairman Nunes and coming here was both routine and proper,” Spicer said at the daily press briefing, adding that Nunes had the “appropriate credentials and clearances.”
When asked again later in the briefing about the specifics of Nunes’ secret meeting with a secret source on the White House grounds, Spicer let loose a long-winded defense of the House Intelligence chair.
“It’s appropriate for a member of Congress to contact someone who has contacted him, according to some of these reports,” Spicer said.
“If you’re asking me, is it appropriate for a member of Congress to come over here, as Chairman Nunes has said himself, he wasn’t hiding or roaming,” he continued. “He was asked to come over here by an individual. He came over, which happens daily. He was asked to go somewhere. He went there. He is cleared. What he did and what he saw and who he went with is 100 percent proper.”
Spicer’s defense of Nunes comes after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that three White House staffers helped provide the House Intelligence chairman with reports that allegedly show incidental collection of information on Trump and his transition staffers.
Really? House Intel Committee chairmen conducting investigations into potential WH wrongdoing “routinely” go to the WH in the middle of the night to pick up evidence from WH national security staff?
How can these fuckers from the MSM be in the room with this kind of nonsense and not feel compelled to stand up and just start screaming “BULLSHIT!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING US!!! TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!”
Spicer should really take this weekend to think about what he’s doing with his life. He’s totally flushing his career with this nonsense. He’s an international laughingstock.
April Fools Day one day early?
This explains all the secrecy. And the changing of cars. And, well, everything.
I understand the White House has hired Molly Shannon to show up as Mary Katherine Gallagher at the next press conference to pull down the “White House Washington” sign, knock over the lectern, roll into the seats and then jump up and yell “Spycraft!”