During a news conference at the White House yesterday, Donald Trump was asked by Fox News' John Roberts as to whether he will agree to a sit down interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is currently investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
This was Trump's answer:
"Well, again John, there has been no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians or Trump and Russians. No collusion. When I watch you interviewing all the people leaving their committees, I mean, the Democrats are all running for office, trying to say this that -- but bottom line, they all say there's no collusion. And there is no collusion.
"And when you talk about interviews, Hillary Clinton had an interview, where she wasn't sworn in, she wasn't given the oath, they didn't take notes, they didn't record and it was done on the 4th of July weekend. That's perhaps ridiculous and a lot of people looked upon that as being a very serious breach and it really was.
"But again I'll speak to attorneys -- I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it. Every committee -- I've been in office now for 11 months. For 11 months, they've had this phony cloud over this administration, over our government. And it has hurt our government. It does hurt our government. It's a Democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the Democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the electoral college.
"So it was brought up for that reason. But it has been determined that there is no collusion and by virtually everybody. So we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I mean certainly we'll see what happens -- when they have no collusion and nobody's found any collusion at any level it seems unlikely that you'd even have an interview."
Now, aside from the 8 times that Trump made a point to say there was no collusion, what was odd in his response was dragging Hillary Clinton's name out of nowhere.
By the way, he says Hillary wasn't "sworn in" during her interview in July 2016 with the FBI as if that gave her some escape or "out" in terms of telling the truth. The fact of the matter is, whether you are under oath or not, it's legal jeopardy to lie to the FBI.
Anyway...
Later, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway strangely asserted to CNN's Chris Cuomo that "nobody" in the White House "talks about Hillary Clinton."
Wait. Wha... Umm.
Watch the video below.
Kellyanne Conway claimed "nobody here talks about Hillary Clinton" despite the fact that President Trump mentioned her at least 3 times earlier today #CuomoPrimeTime https://t.co/sGNQfZyNRt— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 11, 2018
This is gold: CNN put together video of Kellyanne Conway claiming last night that "nobody" in the White House "talks about Hillary Clinton," followed by a dozen or so recent clips of Trump going out of his way to talk about Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.com/s3p9COza9n
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2018
3pm: President Trump repeatedly brings up Hillary Clinton at a joint presser.— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 11, 2018
9pm: Kellyanne Conway says "we don't care about her. Nobody here talks about her. Hey Chris, nobody here talks about Hillary Clinton."
Kellyanne Conway told CNN's @ChrisCuomo: "We don't care about her. Nobody here talks about Hillary Clinton."— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) January 11, 2018
... in case you were curious, Trump has tweeted Hillary Clinton's name at least 89 times since election day. Here are some of those tweets.👇 pic.twitter.com/0lhtoe4thR
Stop. Booking. Kellyanne. Conway. Please. I. Beg. pic.twitter.com/URAP0jv3UK— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) January 11, 2018
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