State TV Blames Obama For Rob Porter [VIDEO]

The Wrap reports:

Jeanine Pirro found an unusual target for the White House scandal surrounding former Trump aide Rob Porter: President Barack Obama. “You want to stop a four-star general who is running the White House, who believes in chain of command, who makes a decision within 40 minutes, because you hate President Trump? Find another scapegoat. You might want to look at the last president,” she said, offering no further explanation.

Later in the show, another disgruntled former Trump White House staffer, Sebastian Gorka, claimed that federal officials may have deliberately slowed down security-clearance reviews that would have caught the red flags in Porter’s record sooner. “If they want to gum up the works and make the Trump administration’s job harder and harder, they play bureaucratic slow rolls,” Gorka said, offering no evidence that had occurred.

Salon reports:



Pirro decided to paint an extravagant tale, in her version of the events, which was quite removed from reality. But her blistering rant requires some exhaustive mental gymnastics. “Have you been tricked into thinking someone was an upstanding person only to find out that the person inside was totally different?” Pirro asked. She added, “It’s nothing new, it happens to all of us, all the time.”

She went on to lionize Kelly, who on Tuesday called Porter a “man of true integrity and honor” in prepared remarks to push back against the impending allegations first reported in the Daily Mail. That statement was also reportedly crafted, at least in part, by White House communications director Hope Hicks, who is dating Porter.