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WomanWhoRoars

(175 posts)
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 04:53 PM Mar 2017

Is this real or satire?? Spicer handed a note...

http://linkis.com/itsthebulletin.com/qcXLX



WASHINGTON – White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was in the middle of his daily press briefing Thursday when an aide handed him a note that said, “You just committed a felony,” according to a senior White House official with knowledge of the note’s contents.

Spicer paused briefly after reading the note, then cleared his throat and continued with the briefing, taking a question from Jonathan Karl of ABC News.

The alleged felony the note referred to apparently centers around Spicer’s remarks during the briefing about an alleged Justice Department investigation into ties between President Trump, his campaign team and officials representing the Russian government. Spicer said the investigators have “no evidence, zero.”

“I’m telling you they have nothing,” Spicer said in response to a question from Halli Jackson of NBC News. The briefing was recorded and broadcast on several different networks and news sites. “I’ve seen what they have, I got hold of it, and they have nothing. They should quit while they’re ahead.”

It is illegal for a White House official to try to influence an investigation by the FBI or the Justice Department itself. It is unclear whether the investigation Spicer was referring to is happening on behalf of the FBI or the Justice Department itself, which has jurisdiction over the FBI.

No matter the specific agency in charge of the investigation, any investigation of the type that Spicer was apparently referring to is supposed to be conucted free of any White House influence. If Spicer did, in fact, ask for, and ultimately procure any information on an investigation into President Trump, he may well have broken the law simply by doing that. On top of that issue, there is the fact that he publicized the investigation, which is also against the law, as any such investigation is considered classified.

It is unclear which Spicer aide handed him the note, but according to the White House official we spoke to, the entire White House communications team was in shock when they heard Spicer admit communicating with the Justice Department official from the podium in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House.

“They were all blown away,” the official said. “I mean, they know he’s not the brightest bulb, but they didn’t think he was quite that dumb.”
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Is this real or satire?? Spicer handed a note... (Original Post) WomanWhoRoars Mar 2017 OP
Just like CONway they will look the other way. Doreen Mar 2017 #1
LOCK HIM UP Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #2
An aide handed him a note IN a press briefing and they could not tell who the aide was??? dixiegrrrrl Mar 2017 #3
Satire blogslut Mar 2017 #4
TY WomanWhoRoars Mar 2017 #5
With this bunch it is almost impossible to tell fact from satire. n/t Lucinda Mar 2017 #6
Chris Cuomo obtained the actual note... pinboy3niner Mar 2017 #7

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. An aide handed him a note IN a press briefing and they could not tell who the aide was???
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 05:06 PM
Mar 2017

but they can report on the note's contents?

blogslut

(37,999 posts)
4. Satire
Fri Mar 10, 2017, 05:07 PM
Mar 2017

No "ABOUT" page on the site but pretty obviously a satire website: http://itsthebulletin.com/

FYI Spicer was handed a note during that press conference but I didn't give damn enough to look up to watch him or his lying face.

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