Keep Hope Hicks alive!
Maggie Haberman carries more WH water this morning, as the VP at Fox somehow reaches a more “existential” decision than Steve Mnuchin to comply with a Congressional subpoena. Marcy Wheeler’s thread below dissects the Haberman piece.
When Trump "encouraged" his aides to "cooperate," he was having his personal lawyer edit their statements so they'd be false.
- The irony here is that this is a story by a journalist about a woman who played an utterly central role in lying to the press, over and over and over, and who on multiple occasions was working harder at the cover-up than even her boss.
- Okay. It's not ironic at all.
- It is a journalist doing an unbelievably favorable piece on a former source who played a central role in routinely lying to the American people.
- Forgot to mention something: that second instance where Hope tried to clean up something Trump said? One of the journalists who (Hope appears to have known) would have been willing to do that was Maggie Haberman.
- Write a similar story about @xychelsea, who is in jail for defying a subpoena.