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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:06 PM Feb 2017

Spicer extended the 'Flynn lied' alibi from just absolving Pence, to a nebulous number of WH people

...Spicer said in his briefing that Flynn had lied to a lot of people in the WH, not just Pence, in his version of why Trump's 'trust' in him 'eroded' overnight.

Who are those others Flynn lied to and what was the nature and content of those lies?

Also, Spicer cited 'other questionable instances' which led to the apparently overnight erosion of confidence in Flynn the press secretary claims occurred over a longer period of time.




Spicer's attempted defense of the WH conduct regarding Flynn raised many more questions than were answered. For example, what was the actual contents of the transcripts which Spicer insisted weren't illegal or improper?

Who has seen these transcripts, other than intelligence officials and the WH?

If Spicer doesn't know the contents of the phone transcripts, how can he speak definitively about the propriety of those conversations?

If the WH was, in fact, privy to those conversations, why wasn't Flynn removed from his duties in Jan. when it became clear he had lied to everyone?

When is Congress going to be allowed to view those transcripts? Why are they being withheld? Are they the subject of an ongoing investigation? If so, all of Spicer's assurances of innocent phone conversations with the Russian ambassador are bunk.

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Spicer extended the 'Flynn lied' alibi from just absolving Pence, to a nebulous number of WH people (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2017 OP
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