KELLYANNE CONWAY doesn't deny report that Trump ordered officials to give Jared Kushner a security clearance over intelligence community objections.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2019
"The president has the absolute right to do what was described," she says. pic.twitter.com/xRvKDKYakF
So the reports are true: Trump intervened to get Jared a top secret security clearance. Why did he and Ivanka lie about it, then?
The pattern is clear, and clear in Trump's rants this morning about Cohen's testimony. Trump doesn't even address the substance of Cohen's testimony, he just complains that now (finally!) his business dealings will be subject to review by Congress and investigators (the latter has been going on since Mueller started; Trump should worry more about SDNY than about what Cohen told the House Committee). He doesn't even deny what Cohen said, but tries to distract with an irrelevant reference to a manuscript Cohen may have been marketing long before, by Cohen's own testimony, he became disenchanted with Trump (which more likely happened when Trump threw him under the bus, which happened shortly after the FBI took all of Cohen's files). (Trump does complain about "fraudulent and dishonest statements." Right; name two that aren't the ones Jim Jordan says constitute grounds for a criminal referral of perjury (a crime that can't be proven here, but sounds serious enough to give some gravitas to complaints about Cohen telling the truth instead of continuing to lie.).)
Trump isn't denying he did something wrong; he's still complaining that he's being investigated for it.
No comments:
Post a Comment