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I will refer everything on this matter to Donald Trump Jr.s outside counsel, Sanders said shortly after reading the presidents statement about his son.
When asked later by a reporter about whether Trump Jr.s emails showed evidence of collusion with the Russian government, she said simply that, I dont want to sound like a broken record, but on all questions related to this matter I would refer you to Don Jr.s counsel.
When asked whether Trump was being truthful when he insisted repeatedly that no one in his campaign had contact with Russian government officials, Sanders said, To repeat myself, I will refer you to the outside counsel, and I do not have anything else to add.
When asked to define what would constitute collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, Sanders said, I said all we are going to say on that, anything else, you have to reach out to outside counsel.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/listen-huckabee-sanders-stonewalls-reporters-on-trump-jr-email-inquiries-in-bizarre-briefing/
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Quanta
(195 posts)My grandmother taught me to only say good things about people. And, that's all I got.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)"I refuse to answer that question by invoking my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."
underpants
(182,823 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)It's the new "Hi, Bob" drinking game.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The president should not be commenting on a developing investigation about the legality of actions, or the really anything else. The courts can see it as spoiling a jury. It is kind of funny that the White House has just finally figured this out. It will be even more interesting to see if the President himself has learned this or if we're going to get a tweet storm that will undermine this effort.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But how far off track has our country gone to be using the canned responses of the accused as official White House statements for legitimate questions that the American people should, by all rights, be getting answers to?
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)But every time I hear that woman speak, I think the next thing out of her mouth is going to be "Now, I'm fixin' tagoda Wal-Mart and y'all can kiss my ass!"
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Hell, I LIVE in the South now...the DEEP South. I have become the guy most likely to be ridiculed. I grew up in Massachusetts (but never had the "pahked mah cah in havad yahd" accent for a second). I don't think I have any identifiable accent at all, other than "clearly not from the South." But when I came here I did my best to be polite, but it is the nature of where I'm at (a very small town) for people to ask "Where are you from?"
Sometimes I answer it without reacting to it, other times it seems accusatory and makes me a little uncomfortable.
With Sarah, it's not a desire to ridicule her. It's a bit of weariness and disgust with one more person who has joined the ranks of Conway and Spicer, drawing a paycheck for fulfilling a job description that is basically one word: "LIE."
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Or is she learning on the job?