Gaslighting

And the gaslighting just goes on and on: There was a clean-up effort Thursday at Aisle: Fox News, when White House spokesman Hogan Gidley insisted President Donald Trump was clear that he would inform the FBI if foreign intelligence reached out with dirt on his 2020 opponent. “It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Gidley fumed. “There’s been no collusion, no corruption, no obstruction. …

The Daily Beast reports: While hundreds of veterans gathered in France on Thursday waiting for commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day to begin, President Trump sat nearby and joked with Fox News host Laura Ingraham about how he was “holding up” the ceremony to do an interview with her. After airing the pre-taped interview on her program Thursday …

The Associated Press reports: U.S. President Donald denied calling Meghan Markle “nasty” in a Sunday morning tweet – despite the remark being on verified video tape. Trump referred to the American-born Duchess of Sussex as “nasty” over comments she made in 2016 threatening to move to Canada if Trump won the White House. “I didn’t know that she was nasty,” …

The Hill reports: An official Twitter account for President Trump’s reelection campaign was mocked on Saturday after it pushed back on reports that Trump had said Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, made “nasty” comments about him. “Here is what he actually said. Listen for yourself!” the account tweeted along with a captioned video. Speaking to British tabloid The Sun ahead …

The Washington Examiner reports: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway touted President Trump’s record on gay rights today, telling journalists Trump was the first president to take office as a supporter of legal same-sex marriage. The tweets are an evolution away from Trump’s arms-length approach to gay pride month during his first two years in office, when Trump abandoned Obama’s formal …

The Hill reports: Trump’s tweet comes one day after Mueller said that his office did not charge Trump with a crime because it “was not an option” under Department of Justice regulations. Mueller, in his first public comments on his two-year investigation, said on Wednesday it would have been impossible to bring Trump to court and that his final report …

Just in from the Biden campaign: The President’s comments are beneath the dignity of the office. To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former Vice President speaks for itself. And it’s part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at the expense of our institutions — whether …

ABC News reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway declared Thursday “the best day” since President Trump’s election, reveling in the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report. “I called this a political proctology exam,” Conway said of the report, claiming Trump had received a “clean bill of health.” “That should make people very good about democracy,” Conway said of …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that his top intelligence officials were “misquoted” and “taken out of context” when they publicly broke with some of his core foreign policy views during congressional testimony earlier this week. CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday shared assessments that were at odds with Trump’s talking points …

CBS News reports: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is holding a formal press briefing Monday, the first time she has fielded questions in the briefing room since before the government shutdown. The last time Sanders formally fielded questions from reporters in the briefing room was Dec. 18, 2018, four days before government funding lapsed and at a time when …