The Company Trump Keeps…
In a preview clip for an interview to air Saturday on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” President Donald Trump says he’s considering canceling daily press briefings all together. Trump has been his own self-inflicted disaster, reportedly refusing to keep his press secretaries in the loop then coming down on them for not properly delivering his message. In reality, he sacrifices his team’s credibility – including even that of Vice President Mike Pence – for quick gratification and deflection.
President Trump in the interview clip refused to definitively stand by his embattled Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, but offered praise for Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Both have lost the confidence of many across the nation.
Pirro, who publicly supported Trump during the 2016 election, asks Trump in the clip if he is moving so “quickly” that his communications team can’t “keep up” with him. It’s a stunning twisting and turning of the situation that is typical for Fox News.
Trump, who ran on the platform of having a great business mind, like most Republicans offers as a solution to just cancel the press briefings. Republicans often decide rather than fixing something they will just get rid of it (see: ObamaCare).
Rather than support his team by talking about their professional skills, Trump describes Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “a lovely young woman,” and Sean Spicer as “a wonderful human being, a great man.”
That’s when Pirro asks if Spicer will be around for the long haul. “He’s doing a great job but he gets beat up,” Trump responds. Asked if he will be there “tomorrow,” Trump looks away, shrugs, says, “yeah, well, he’s been there from the beginning.”
Hardly a gushing endorsement.
It’s truly stunning that Trump this week would turn to “Judge Jeanine,” the stage name of Fox News host and former district attorney Jeanine Pirro, to help repair his damaged image.
In 2006 Pirro, was forced to announce, while running to be New York Attorney General, “that she was the subject of a federal investigation into whether she illegally taped her husband’s conversations,” the New York Times reported at the time. Trump today is in the middle of a firestorm for suggesting that he, possibly illegally, secretly recorded conversations with Jim Comey, the FBI Director he fired this week. Trump donated to Pirro’s 2006 campaign, which she lost. Before losing the attorney general campaign, Pirro that same year ran for the U.S. Senate, but pulled out rather than lose to Hillary Clinton.
The New York Post in 2006 reported, “In a devastating blow to her campaign, Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro admitted yesterday she is under federal investigation for discussing with former city Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik how to secretly record her bad-boy husband to see if he was cheating.”
Kerik, of course, is former Rudy Giuliani Police Commissioner who is now a convicted felon.Â
It’s all just more proof of Trump’s poor decision-making skills, which he demonstrated this week. The day after firing Jim Comey, Trump met with President Richard Nixon’s Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, in the Oval Office. The firing weas “Nixonian,” and now Trump suggests he secretly recorded Jim Comey – also “Nixonian.” Trump also hid a meeting he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the man so many Trump associates seem to always exclude from mentions when asked if they have any ties to Russia. Trump also refused to allow U.S. media into the meeting but allowed a Russian government photographer access, which security professionals call a huge bereach of protocol.
Trump was reportedly surprised to see photographs of their meeting, posted by the Russian government’s news agency, TASS, on the internet, with the President of the United States almost huging the Russian Ambassador, whom U.S. intelligence agencies consider a top Russian spy.
Video via Yasharâ€/Twitter
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