Trump press secretary backtracks claim Obama officials left 'You will fail' notes

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Trump press secretary backtracks claim Obama officials left 'You will fail' notes

Stephanie Grisham retracted claim she and her colleagues encountered notes after rejection from ex-Obama staffers

Adam Gabbatt
@adamgabbatt
Wed 20 Nov 2019 16.22 GMT
Last modified on Wed 20 Nov 2019 16.25 GMT

The White House press secretary has backed down from her claim that Obama administration officials left behind notes for Trump staffers saying “You will fail” and “You aren’t going to make it”, after a number of aides denied the allegation.

In a radio interview on Tuesday, Stephanie Grisham said she and her colleagues had encountered the notes upon entering White House offices.

“When we came into the White House, I’ll tell you something, every office was filled with Obama books, and we had notes left behind that said ‘You will fail’, ‘You aren’t going to make it’,” she said. “In the press office, there was a big note taped to a door that said that ‘You will fail’,” Grisham told the John Fredericks Show.

Grisham retracted her claims, however, after a full-throated rejection from former Obama staffers.

“This is absolutely not true,” Chris Lu, a White House cabinet secretary in the Obama administration, wrote on Twitter.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/20/stephanie-grisham-obama-officials-you-will-fail-notes-claim

[exboyfil]

1. How can you backtrack from something like this

It either is or is not.

[tblue37]

10. Here is her spin on it:

.After the backlash Grisham walked back from her initial remarks. She issued a statement saying the controversy was “silly” but did not expand on why she had made the claims.

“ certainly wasn’t implying every office had that issue,” Grisham said.

“I was talking specifically (and honestly) about our experience in the lower press office – nowhere else. I don’t know why everyone is so sensitive!”

[C_U_L8R]

2. They lie, compulsively.

There is no credibility in the Trump regime.

[PatSeg]

3. I remember similar allegations

from GW Bush's staff about Clinton's staff. Very unprofessional.

[JHB]

6. I remember how Bush and his "adults" played footsie with the claims...

...to keep them churning in the news cycle when he could have easily refuted them and dismissed the whole matter.

[PatSeg]

7. So petty and childish

Horrible way to start a new administration.

[JHB]

8. So calculated, manipulating, and agenda-pushing

As long as they kept it going, the media was still fixated on the Clintons (and similarly with the allegations about Rep. Gary Condit after Chandra Lavy's disappearance).

Media attention eager for salacious dirt on Democrats, no matter how fictional, was media attention not directed at what Bush and other Republicans were doing. And not doing.

[PatSeg]

11. Yep

Republicans never seem to get the same relentless scrutiny that Democrats do. If a Democrat is very popular or perceived as a good leader, there are media people who go out of their way to try and bring them down. If a Democrat is squeaky clean like Obama, they will dig under every rock to try and disprove that perception.

[leftieNanner]

4. She must lie in her bed late at night

And dream this crap up in a feverish dream.

Geez! What was the point of saying this? Trying for another distraction? Trying to get people to ignore the IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS?

Good luck Steffie!

[Jewls2]

5. So, Grisham went to the press and flat out lied. Made up a story.

And they get away with it.

[Blue_Tires]

9. That's it??

You know if a Dem press secretary got caught in such an obvious lie just to smear the GOP, Republicans would not only be demanding her job, they would demand an apology from every online news site and publication that reported the smear...

[Blue_true]

12. If they had those types of notes, we would have seen every single one of them by now. nt

[ck4829]

13. The notes CLEARLY came equipped with George Soros tech that prevents them from being photographed

It makes sense...

Only if you're an insane right winger.