Posted on 08/30/2019 6:54:43 AM PDT by NorseViking
“I am not a crook.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
Just joking.”
That last line may be the Trump administration’s way of maintaining plausible deniability when dangling pardons.
The Washington Post reported this week that Trump has told aides that he will pardon them if they have to break laws to build a border wall.
Trump’s statement reportedly came as he pushes aides to build a border wall before the 2020 election to make good on his campaign promise, even if it requires seizing private land and disregarding environmental rules. When aides have protested that some of his orders violate the law, the Post reported that Trump told them that they should proceed anyway, and that he will pardon them of any wrongdoing if necessary.
An anonymous White House source did not deny the reporting, instead explaining that Trump is joking when he makes such statements.
Hilarious.
Trump’s former press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump was also joking in July 2016 when he publicly stated, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” referring to emails deleted from the private email server that Hillary Clinton used as secretary of state. But the Russians didn’t get the joke. Less than five hours later, Russian intelligence officers attempted to hack into Clinton’s email account, according to an indictment returned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump may have been joking, but others took action that violated the law and benefited Trump.
It has been said that we should learn to take Trump seriously but not literally. But Trump is no longer just the loudmouth at the country club, spouting off about current events to hangers-on. What might have passed as edgy, off-the-cuff humor from a political candidate
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Barf alert is mine by the way.
Too silly to even matter.
Compared to the way they hit him, the msm, this is a fluff piece.
I wonder how US is keep going with ‘free’ media like this.
The thing most “free” about it is the free shots they take at Trump day and night.
And they get more and more absurd.
AND WTF!!!
Does ANYTHING Trump says stay private?!?!
There are so many around him that run like little b.tches to the press the second a meeting is over!
Another name is high treason.
Honest, there is no kind of agreement or rule or law in place about passing on information discussed between the President and those around him?
I don’t know.
I figured there would be.
In my opinion a Jury has to weight on.
Whoa. The Daily Beast lumps Clinton in with Nixon and Trump? SOMEbody better put himself or herself on suicide watch.
Gotcha..
Still, they should be let go immediately if caught
Who says the media don’t just make stuff up? Are they above it?
It wasn’t denied by his people.
They said Trump is joking when he makes such statements but i believe he said it and i believe in human language it’s CALLED A JOKE!!!
They mock him for supposedly only building (so far) where there was already an ineffective barrier. They don’t realize they are telling us that for all his bluster, he was following the law. They didn’t give him money for a wall, so he “repaired” the existing wall with money for that purpose. He goes to the limit of the law; he doesn’t violate it.
Maybe “his people” never denied it was because it was never asked.
Just remember, libs don’t understand humor, irony, or math.
His best roast of Hillary at the Alfred E. Smith charity dinner was the line that she bumped into him and said, “Pardon me.”
https://youtu.be/9rBr_WLQsFc?t=31
President Trump’s Tweet:
“Another totally Fake story in the Amazon Washington Post (lobbyist) which states that if my Aides broke the law to build the Wall (which is going up rapidly), I would give them a Pardon,” Trump said on Twitter Wednesday. “This was made up by the Washington Post only in order to demean and disparage - FAKE NEWS!”
They always leave out the second part of the joke: “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
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