Huckabee Sanders spent almost her entire time at the podium claiming that they barely knew Paul Manafort, and that this George Papadopoulos was just some volunteer that nobody in the campaign ever even bothered to talked to.Reporter: How did President Trump react to indictments and guilty plea?— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 30, 2017
Sanders: “Without a lot of reaction” https://t.co/i0KJKcBVgK
And this is despite the fact that Trump introduced Papadapolous early in the campaign as "energy and foreign policy expert," which certainly does not sound like a freaking volunteer licking envelopes in the back room somewhere. And Manafort was his campaign manager and the guy that a lot of people credited with turning the campaign around.
See?.@newtgingrich: "Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this [Trump] campaign to where it is right now."— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 20, 2016
However Huckabee's main reason for taking the podium today was crystal clear from the beginning.
Several times Huckabee Sanders made the case that the REAL evidence of collusion was between the Clinton campaign and the Russians, and that all of this is all just smoke and mirrors.Sarah Huckabee Sanders checking her notes at today's Press Briefing: http://pic.twitter.com/xclrI30WWF— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) October 30, 2017
Which of course is the same meme that her boss was pushing this morning as well.
Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2017
By the way that does not exactly sound as if Trump had the no reaction that Huckabee described in her lies to the White House press corps.....Also, there is NO COLLUSION!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2017
The facts are that the Trump White House is fully engaged in damage control right now, and that it is all about deflection, distraction, and denial.
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