Spicer Says He Expects Sally Yates To Tell The Truth In Senate Testimony

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By MATT SHUHAM Published MAY 8, 2017 2:20 PM

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that he expected former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to tell the truth during her testimony to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Since revelations Yates warned the Trump administration that ousted National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was a blackmail risk in that position, because he had misled the Vice President about his discussions of sanctions with the Russian ambassador, President Donald Trump has attacked her as a partisan leaker.

“Do you have any reason to doubt that her testimony, which will be under oath, will be truthful before this senate subcommittee?” one reporter asked Spicer during his daily press briefing Monday. “I would assume that when you raise your right hand and agree to tell the truth and nothing but the truth that you’ll do that. That’s the whole reason you pledge,” he said.

Spicer also said at the press briefing that Yates had not, to his knowledge, cleared her testimony with the White House general counsel’s office. That point was subject to a brief controversy in late March, after Yates’ scheduled testimony to the House Intelligence Committee was cancelled.

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[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Am I mistaken or is this getting out in the front of the story in an attempt

to frame doubt as to the validity of what AG Yates might say?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Your nailed it my friend.

Watch the Evening News for verification of your statement.

[jack69]

2. As opposed to all of Spicies bosses.

[Initech]

3. Wait wait wait - let's contemplate this here. Sean Spicer wants truth. Sean Spicer wants truth.

Sean Spicer wants truth. Sean Spicer wants truth. No matter how many times you say that, it still sounds weird.

[cstanleytech]

7. Most likely they have determined that what she can testify on wont really cause them much more harm

than they have already done to themselves because lets face it she wasnt in Trumps inner circle so its doubtful that she would have much if anything on him or his people.

[Initech]

8. And if she does tell the truth, Trumpy the Fake News Parrot will go on a 3:00 AM Twitter binge.

FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!

[cstanleytech]

9. Exactly. nt

[sakabatou]

4. I bet Spicey and Trump will say she's lying over and over

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Yeah, with a "more in sorrow than anger" act. Saying they "expect" truth is setting this up. . . nt

[cstanleytech]

10. He will have to be careful in how he goes about that though because while the President

enjoys broad protections from being personally sued by someone those protections are not infinite and if he or his administration makes a misstep they could find themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit for slander.

[Xipe Totec]

11. Speculative, given his lack of acquaintance with the concept of veracity. nt

[ehrnst]

12. Like saying, "I expect Spicer to give accurate information to the press this time." (nt)