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When your WH chief of staff and sec def have to hold press conferences declaring they're not (Original Post) lindysalsagal Oct 2017 OP
This entire administration ... NanceGreggs Oct 2017 #1
I can't recall any other WH chief of staff making such a display of denials. nt procon Oct 2017 #2
The intent was damage control BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #3
They are trying bdamomma Oct 2017 #6
Sounds a lot like "I am not a witch." Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #4
And "I am not a crook." nt tblue37 Oct 2017 #5
The world IS laughing. Iggo Oct 2017 #7

BigmanPigman

(51,623 posts)
3. The intent was damage control
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 08:12 PM
Oct 2017

and to make us feel safer. It had the opposite effect on me. I feel even less secure since this is confirmation that the situation is as bad, if not worse, than we already knew. To have to do this sort of appearance in the first place is a bad sign.

bdamomma

(63,917 posts)
6. They are trying
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 09:32 PM
Oct 2017

to make things are really not that bad. Yes gentlemen, things are really that bad.
Or then again I can see those filthy Repigs not wanting to cause a panic among the American people, but we know how bad he is. But we already know that repigs do not give a shit about the American people.

I want to see action to get this man out, and I do not want to hear "we should have done something about him".

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