Well the damage is done
Ok. Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway admitted the campaign lied by saying the FBI was going to indict Clinton – and she was unapologetic about it. So that’s where we are; ok.
MSNBC’s “11th Hour” host Brian Williams asked Kellyanne Conway about a report from Fox News in which two anonymous “sources with intimate knowledge” of an FBI inquiry into the Clinton Foundation said an indictment of Clinton was “likely.” Trump recounted a version of the report to a crowd in Jacksonville, Florida on Thursday, crowing that “FBI agents” said his opponent would be indicted.
“This has been walked back, the indictment portion, by Fox News who originally reported it and by NBC News which has done subsequent reporting on this,” Williams said. “Will Donald Trump amend his stump speech to walk back the same thing?”
“Well, the damage is done to Hillary Clinton,” Conway replied. “No matter how it’s being termed the voters are hearing it for what it is—a culture of corruption.”
In other words no, we’ll tell any lie we want to and you can’t stop us, neener.
I don’t suppose the highly paid Brian pointed out that the “culture of corruption” is on the side that lies for a living, not the other side.
I saw it live. She literally shrugged and gave a little smirk before speaking.
“This particular point might be untrue, but we’re justified saying it because we all know it’s the kind of thing that would be true.”
Re: ‘The voters are hearing it for what it is—a culture of corruption…’
Interesting claim…
Me, I’m more noticing a certain culture of bald faced lying.
A bit like the courtroom response under cross-examination in another situation from the immortal writer Whatsisname regarding an allegation he, Whatsisname, had made in a book some public figure, which resulted in his publisher being sued for defamation by said public figure:
“If it wasn’t true, then it should have been!”
in a book about some public figure