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From CBS News
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During an impromptu press conference Friday before leaving for Paris, President Donald Trump put some distance between himself and Matt Whitaker, the newly appointed acting attorney general who now oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling and any ties to Trump associates.
Mr. Trump denied knowing Whitaker, the man he just appointed as the nation's top law enforcement official.
"Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions and he was always extremely highly thought of and he still is but I didn't know Matt Whitaker," Mr. Trump said.
But Whitaker has visited the Oval Office so many times, some of his Justice Department colleagues suspect him of being a White House spy.
COMMENT:-
If I take Mr. Trump at his word that he doesn't know Mr. Whitaker, then I am forced to the conclusion that Mr. Trump's selection process for members of the Executive Branch is either completely random or based solely on what someone tells him he should think.
Quite frankly I wouldn't be very comfortable with either of those options.
Fortunately, I don't have to actually believe Mr. Trump when he says something (mainly because I'll never have to wait too long before he says the exact opposite).
THAT option doesn't make me feel overly comfortable either, but Mr. Trump IS the AMERICAN President who was LEGALLY ELECTED, under AMERICAN laws, as outlined in the AMERICAN constitution, through the votes of the AMERICAN people in an AMERICAN election, conducted under the supervision of AMERICAN officials so that's all there is to know about it.
PS - Just because Mr. Whitaker "visited the Oval Office" that doesn't mean that Mr. Trump was there at the same time - right?
Trump denies knowing the man he appointed as the nation's top law enforcement official
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During an impromptu press conference Friday before leaving for Paris, President Donald Trump put some distance between himself and Matt Whitaker, the newly appointed acting attorney general who now oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling and any ties to Trump associates.
Mr. Trump denied knowing Whitaker, the man he just appointed as the nation's top law enforcement official.
"Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions and he was always extremely highly thought of and he still is but I didn't know Matt Whitaker," Mr. Trump said.
But Whitaker has visited the Oval Office so many times, some of his Justice Department colleagues suspect him of being a White House spy.
COMMENT:-
If I take Mr. Trump at his word that he doesn't know Mr. Whitaker, then I am forced to the conclusion that Mr. Trump's selection process for members of the Executive Branch is either completely random or based solely on what someone tells him he should think.
Quite frankly I wouldn't be very comfortable with either of those options.
Fortunately, I don't have to actually believe Mr. Trump when he says something (mainly because I'll never have to wait too long before he says the exact opposite).
THAT option doesn't make me feel overly comfortable either, but Mr. Trump IS the AMERICAN President who was LEGALLY ELECTED, under AMERICAN laws, as outlined in the AMERICAN constitution, through the votes of the AMERICAN people in an AMERICAN election, conducted under the supervision of AMERICAN officials so that's all there is to know about it.
PS - Just because Mr. Whitaker "visited the Oval Office" that doesn't mean that Mr. Trump was there at the same time - right?