White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany just shut down House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for “playing politics” with the bombshell reports that claim Russia paid the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.
While appearing on “Fox & Friends,” McEnany said that Pelosi is “entirely off-base” after the Democrat accused President Donald Trump of not taking action to stop this because Russia has incriminating information on him. “This is as bad as it gets, and yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score, denies being briefed,” Pelosi said on Sunday. “I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, financially, or whatever it is. But he wants to ignore, he wants to bring them back to the G-8 despite the annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine.”
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McEnany, however, was not having any of it. “This president has been very tough on Russia, sanctioning a new Russian target, closing Russian consulates, so she’s just off-base on her facts there,” she said, going on to claim that the president was never briefed on the intelligence reports that were published by The New York Times on Friday.
“What she’s doing, she’s taking a report based on anonymous sourcing that was just dead wrong. The New York Times was wrong, believe it or not, and she’s politicizing it,” McEnany added. This comes one day after President Trump himself took to Twitter to deny having any knowledge of the reports. “Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP,” the president tweeted. “Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!”
Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or @VP. Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News @nytimesbooks, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!! https://t.co/cowOmP7T1S
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2020
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In today’s interview with Fox News, McEnany said that she doesn’t know who the unnamed sources quoted in the report could be, adding that leaking this kind of information is never good for the United States as a whole. “To go and to share classified information or unverified intelligence or any of the thousands of reports that come in on any given day have to be assessed for their credibility,” she said.
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This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on June 30, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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lets call nancy the drama queen. most often she is so wrong with her statements and poor attacked donald is so right. it amazes me how right this man is with his statements. if he says it it will be right. no drama no nonsence.
If there is any bounty on anyone I would bet my life on the democrats and their thugs did it. Why on earth is anyone telling these Trump haters anything. Especially Schiff, Schumer an Pelosi. Pelosi looks like she is going to have a nervous breakdown right now. Can’t wait till November because all these people will need straight jackets and some good drugs.