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babylonsister

(171,074 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 02:00 PM Jun 2017

Fox News Chris Wallace: Comeys testimony was very damaging to the president

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/fox-news-chris-wallace-comeys-testimony-was-very-damaging-to-the-president/

Fox News’ Chris Wallace: Comey’s testimony was ‘very damaging to the president’
Brad Reed
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08 Jun 2017 at 13:32 ET


Fox News’ Chris Wallace didn’t mince any words for his audience on Thursday: Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony was very bad news for President Donald Trump.

Specifically, Wallace was struck by the fact that Comey repeatedly said that Trump is a liar.

“Politically, I thought it was very damaging to the president,” Wallace said on Fox shortly after Comey’s testimony ended. “Repeatedly, James Comey called the president a liar, said that he lied that the FBI was in disarray, that he defamed him, defamed the FBI. [He] said that the reason he kept those kinds of notes in the first place was because this was the kind of man who would lie about those kinds of things.”

Wallace also noted that it was wholly inappropriate not only for Trump to ask Comey to drop the Flynn investigation, but also to kick Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions out of the room before doing so.

“It’s not good stuff to have said on national television,” he said.
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Fox News Chris Wallace: Comeys testimony was very damaging to the president (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2017 OP
Good for Wallace! Kaleva Jun 2017 #1
If you think this is bad Chris just wait until Little Star Jun 2017 #2
Have the calls for his head on a platter leftynyc Jun 2017 #3
Any minute now. Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #26
This is going to be very hard... Else You Are Mad Jun 2017 #4
They'll just quickly change the subject. Wednesdays Jun 2017 #20
He managed to gag it out, huh? eleny Jun 2017 #5
Eh, Wallace Else You Are Mad Jun 2017 #6
He likes to be contentious eleny Jun 2017 #7
I thought MSNBC is where Fox News talking heads go bermudat Jun 2017 #17
I think Wallace might see that as a step down eleny Jun 2017 #18
+1 .99center Jun 2017 #24
The reporter in Wallace, raising its head again MiddleClass Jun 2017 #8
Wallace knows this ain't going well for trump..And it's not beachbum bob Jun 2017 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Kathy M Jun 2017 #25
Thank you Mr. Wallace riversedge Jun 2017 #10
It's a virus not a body blow C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #11
I think it has to be multi-pronged, wide ranging and relentless... like investigations of his deurbano Jun 2017 #15
It's a big honkin' game of whack-a-mole C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #16
An accurate analysis, from a place that rarely gives them. Stuart G Jun 2017 #12
Even Judge Napalitano said it was damaging Wiseman32218 Jun 2017 #13
By tomorrow they'll have their talking points straight Mr. Ected Jun 2017 #14
All the liars on Fox are calling Comey a liar, slandering him. RNC chair going down with Trump anneboleyn Jun 2017 #19
Kudos for that!! ailsagirl Jun 2017 #21
Wait! Wait! bucolic_frolic Jun 2017 #22
Yes. This got out to even the rightest of the right lindysalsagal Jun 2017 #23
But Friday morning on Fox and Friends onlyadream Jun 2017 #27
Vindicated until Mister Manafort sings MiddleClass Jun 2017 #28
His Father will always be the better journalist. gordianot Jun 2017 #29

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
26. Any minute now.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:28 PM
Jun 2017

We are at a disadvantage, us patriots, we STILL believe the GOP will "do the right thing" at some point, they wont.

Never

And right now Putin is hacking into our election for next year AND there are THOUSANDS of on the ground russian agents and alleged progressives running around everywhere saying things like "Pelosi shouldnt be the speaker if we take back the house"

And next week Obamacare is gone, next is Medicare and SS

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
4. This is going to be very hard...
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 02:04 PM
Jun 2017

For people to defend Trump after this. All they really will have are the RWNJ commentators that will say Comey is lying and this is a 'Clinton Cabal' conspiracy.

.99center

(1,237 posts)
24. +1
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:13 PM
Jun 2017

Greta over at MSNBC was the only network I seen defending Trump after Comey testified. As FOX's roundtable discussed how bad this is for Trump, Greta was attempting to make Lynch the story.

MiddleClass

(888 posts)
8. The reporter in Wallace, raising its head again
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 02:10 PM
Jun 2017

I hope it don't get him fired because that is not their idea of fair and balanced, which is not fair or balanced

Response to beachbum bob (Reply #9)

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
11. It's a virus not a body blow
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 02:18 PM
Jun 2017

Yes, Comey's testimony along with a mountain of other evidence will topple Trump.

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
15. I think it has to be multi-pronged, wide ranging and relentless... like investigations of his
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:28 PM
Jun 2017

business dealings and his foundation... and Eric's foundation... and all his kids' business dealings (and a lot of this will have to come from states with Democratic attorneys general, like what's happening in New York)... and all the conflicts of interests and ethics violations of him, his family, his appointees... all the Russian stuff... any sexual harassment lawsuits still pending... any lawsuits from the scores of people he cheated still pending...just pile it on. The press should have done this more effectively BEFORE the election... but part of the challenge was the sheer size of that "mountain"... and also I think they assumed Clinton would win, and wanted to stay with their usual, reflexive, hostile playbook regarding anything Clinton. So, all kinds of in-depth coverage of a goddamn Breitbart creation (Clinton Cash) by the MSM (and of course, even more so by the nutcase media)... and email, email, email... but it was almost like the Vulgar Talking Yam was so corrupt, they didn't know where to start... or what to focus on. (So, let's just stick with what we know-- smearing Clintons for nothing.)

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
12. An accurate analysis, from a place that rarely gives them.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 03:19 PM
Jun 2017

But as was said, the reporter in Wallace responded with the truth.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
14. By tomorrow they'll have their talking points straight
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:11 PM
Jun 2017

And they will have reported to their glazed eyed minions that it is Comey, not Trump, who is in jeopardy now.

...oh, and Obama and Hillary too....

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
19. All the liars on Fox are calling Comey a liar, slandering him. RNC chair going down with Trump
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:52 PM
Jun 2017

ship. She is a complete idiot, saying that the American people don't care about the fact that the president is a Russian stooge (I am adding "Russian stooge&quot . It's so pathetic -- she thinks she can repeat the same empty crap over and over and over while the Repubs guy healthcare, etc and sell their souls to a psycho asshole whose lack of patriotism is rather...remarkable.

I will translate the RNC chair's gobbledygook: "WE HAVE GOT TO PASS DRACONIAN HEALTHCARE CUTS AND DEVASTATE EVERY PROGRAM IN THIS COUNTRY BEFORE TRUMP GETS IMPEACHED/GOES BELOW 30% APPROVAL"

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
23. Yes. This got out to even the rightest of the right
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 01:09 PM
Jun 2017

And it's hard to dismiss. Perception hurts more than information.

onlyadream

(2,166 posts)
27. But Friday morning on Fox and Friends
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 06:01 PM
Jun 2017

They were smugly declaring trump vindicated. I couldn't watch long since I didn't want to get sick.

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