Spicer claims Grassley told Trump collusion w/ Russia was a "hoax". Grassley Spox: 'never happened'

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Source: DailyKos



Friday May 12, 2017 · 9:50 PM CST




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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: Committe Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)................. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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..............During Sean Spicer’s press conference, Spicer said Trump received assurances from Grassley’s office that Russian collusion with the Trump campaign was a “hoax”.

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And more importantly, as Michael Isikoff reports, this new revelation by the White House catches them in yet another LIE about the firing of Comey.



Just hours after White House spokesman Sean Spicer said President Trump had received assurances from a key senator that the idea of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was a “hoax,” a spokesman for the senator, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, denied any such conversation.

“Sen. Grassley has not spoken to President Trump about what he has learned in briefings related to investigations into Russian interference in our elections, and he has never referred to the notion of collusion as a ‘hoax,’” Grassley’s spokesman, Taylor Foy, emailed Yahoo News. Grassley is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and together with ranking minority member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has been briefed on details of the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s presidential election..........................

Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/12/1661874/-Spicer-claims-Grassley-told-Trump-collusion-w-Russia-was-a-hoax-Grassley-Spox-never-happened

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I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Grassley found out that Trump (via Spicer) had told the world-- that it was him that Trump was referring to in the Lester Holt interview. te he




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[Arkansas Granny]

1. And Trump will waffle on this in his usual manner if he's called on a lie.

"Someone must have told me", "I must have read it somewhere". He won't admit to the lie, ever.

[riversedge]

3. Trump just threw out that lie --similar to how he tossed out that the Tower was being bugged by

Obama. [much different though because then, Trump asked the FBI to his statement wrong].

[LiberalArkie]

16. Part of the Trump Tower was probably bugged by the FBI, remember a Russian company had a floor.

[Hekate]

37. And by the Russians themselves... Holy crap, does the country need this drama? nt

[LiberalArkie]

39. What a great time for me to be alive.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He won't even have to do that

He'll blame the media for misinterpreting what Spicey said.

[George II]

8. John Miller told him.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Lol.

[Achilleaze]

2. republicans desperately need a Lie Czar

to help them manage their lies.

At this point, their beloved republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his Kabal of Kolluding Kronies are - frankly - getting sloppy with their lies.

Deplorable.

[R Merm]

4. Future Trump residence

[link:|

[NNadir]

15. I'm worried with his tiny wrists and tiny hands he'll slip out of his handcuffs and escape to...

...Russia, where he'll download every intelligence briefing he remembers to his pal Vlad.

Of course, since he is senile and mindless and clearly unintelligent, it won't matter much, since his very useless little brain can't recall very much.

Of course, the traitor party, the Republicans, will be perfectly happy with this turn of affairs as long as they keep getting checks from David Koch and Sheldon Adelman and other people who don't give a fuck about this country or the world.

[Ilsa]

21. I suspect the IC isn't telling him any more than

what Russia & Putin already know. It wouldn't surprise me if they were actually giving him benign, actionable disinformation to see if russia responds.

[NNadir]

24. Well, that might be good for the short term, but if we ever again get a President as smart...

...and patriotic as Mr. Obama, it's quite possible that from that experience they will have developed a habit of "going rouge."

[Ilsa]

25. Yes, dangerous practices. nt

[47of74]

17. Actually I'd hope it'd be here.

[Blue_Adept]

5. Man, remember when Republicans used to be on message?

Their unity was always something to admire even if you don't like them. I tend to prefer the "big tent" of Democrats with all our voices in the fray to find unifying points and having dissent with in it, but at the same time, well, Republicans got shit done.

The way things are today? Man, the lies are just so blatant. You used to be able to play that they'd be saying the truth in their minds with the "from a certain point of view" defense and that would allow it to go on with minor challenges, but this stuff?

Holy crap it's just terrible. I really can't imagine what a post-Trump Washington will be like because if we go back to the norms it's going to be weird.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Of course, part of that problem is because Trump is not a Republican and

his message will be that of the last person he talked to.

He is nothing but a two bit carnival huckster, used car salesman, tv reality show "star" who caught the attention of a certain segment of our population who wants to believe his lies. He doesn't have the experience, intellect or temperament for the job, yet he represents this nation.

[Blue_Adept]

32. Trump is a Republican

Yeah, I know, he's not really a label person in some ways with his positions over the years and even the massive flips during the campaign.

But don't let that change the underlying piece we need to hammer to him and other republicans; he ran under the party banner, is the head of the party as president, and represents them.

[Bradical79]

33. He's what they've been building towards for decades

I agree with you completely. They were more effective than we thought, and caught themselves by surprise too.

The intentional dumbing down of the electorate
The anti-intelectual attacks
The false patriotism and nationalism
The racist dog whistles
The voter surpression
The Tea Party
The propaganda news network
and so on

In hindsight, as they made more gains, someone like Trump leading the GOP was inevitable.

[The Wizard]

36. Trump really is

nothing more than a cheesy reality TV show actor with the nuclear codes. That should scare the shit out of everyone.

[Purrfessor]

7. Grassley better hope there are no "tapes" before he goes leaking to the press.

[Feathery Scout]

40. I would bet Grassley blabbed EVERYTHING to Trump. And now he knows it's on tape.

[Greensix1]

9. You can't trust either one

If Grassley's lips at moving, he's lying. I don't trust anything he or the White House says. If he learned anything about Trumps Russian mob connections you can bet he told Trump Everything, and now he's lying about it.

[47of74]

18. Yeah I know

I'm in Iowa and it's very frustrating that he keeps getting reelected. We have a sizable teabilly Fornicate stick population that would vote for Satan if he was an R, even during the primary.

[Maxheader]

12. Seems

All these trump appointees...through him or a friend. Whatever...
Lots of times the news would report past transgressions in their
lives...Its like the old computer phrase..'junk in gives you junk out'

[Frustratedlady]

13. Is there room on the wall for one more fly?

That would have been priceless to see.

It will be interesting to see how much further Grassley will go in protecting Trump. He's being made a fool of (well, he helped) by Trump, so I have no sympathy for him.

I remember the day he and Diane walked out of that briefing. They were both white as ghosts and I can't imagine it was from learning Trump was in collusion with the Russians. There has to be a whole lot more yet to surface.

[Ilsa]

23. LOL. I'm imagining the

Oval Office with one wall covered in flies that volunteered to hang out there to watch and listen. The idea that we need such a thing is as grotesque as the image of seeing a wall covered in flies. Or spiders under the table, etc.

Glad it's happening to Grassley. If only Cruz and Cornyn could get swept into donald's fun house of lies.

[grantcart]

14. just priming the pump

or screwing the pooch

or just Batshit crazy

[bullwinkle428]

19. "YOU KNEW I WAS A SNAKE, WHEN YOU CHOSE TO TAKE ME IN!!!"

[Ilsa]

22. Oh yeah! And then there's this one:

The Parable of the Turtle and the Scorpion

A turtle was happily swimming along a river when a scorpion hailed it from the shore.

A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" exclaimed the turtle. "You'll sting me while I'm swimming and I'll drown."

"My dear turtle," laughed the scorpion, "if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you, and drown as well. Now where is the logic in that?"

The turtle thought this over, and saw the logic of the scorpion's statement. "You're right!" cried the turtle. "Hop on!" The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river the scorpion gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resignedly said:

"Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there'd be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?"

"It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just my nature..."

[turbinetree]

20. And just think for old time sake, Grassley, yes, the same Grassley

that has been asking in the hearings if the Treason has been a hoax because of media leaks, yes that right, media leaks.

Then this self righteous ass**** basically corrupted the nomination process for Merrick Garland, so in essence FU Grassley, your in the boat with this pathological liar, and your going down with him, he owns you and you own him

[librechik]

26. MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE--go Trump--make a liar out of ALL your friends in Congress.

(and an enemy)

hurry hurry impeach please hurry!

[left-of-center2012]

27. Maybe he read it in Breitbart?

Along with climate change being a Chinese hoax?

[Honeycombe8]

28. The Repubs in Congress are learning one by one that Trump can't be trusted.

Imagine that! Trump not trustworthy!

Who knows is Grassley said that or not. But if he did, I'm sure he didn't expect the White House to announce that to the world. And if Grassley didn't say that, that's doubly bad for Grassley, since that would be a violation of the laws, right? To tell the subject of an investigation what they have or haven't found so far?

[Thinkingabout]

29. More of the stronger republicans should start calling trump out for lying, it isn't going

to go away, his cover up attempts is kindergarten, he does not even know do cover up professionally.

[yuiyoshida]

30. He may not be Nixonian but he seems to be a

dick head.

[pangaia]

31. The truly evil ones are the republicans.

trunker(not a typo) is just a stupid, narcissistic fuck.
The rest of them are are the real enemy of you, I, Americans and human beings the world over.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Trump lies the way a very young child lies.

He thinks that if he says it, it must be true.

This is the most obvious clue that he is emotionally about five years old.

What Grassley actually said or didn't say isn't at all the point. It's what Donnie is saying. Notice how he's trying to surround himself with people who have supposedly said either he's not being investigated or that they're saying there's no proof of Russian involvement and so on.

I believe that Donnie actually believes whatever he says at the time he says it. It's just that he has simply no concept of what's true compared to what's not true. Again, the way a very young child thinks.

[OregonBlue]

35. He may not have said that exact thing but I've been wondering if Grassley is bought. He has been

totally on the side of Trump and seems to consider this all a big hoax.

[Pluvious]

38. Dolt45 did warn us his spokespeople can't be expected to always get things right n/t