Day Three

What do you do if you government looks you in the eyes and lie to you?

KELLYANNE CONWAY, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT

On NBC “Meet the Press”

“You’re saying it’s a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that,” she told NBC’s Chuck Todd.

“If we’re going to keep referring to the press secretary in those types of terms I think we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here,” she said.

On ABC “This Week”

STEPHANOPOULOS: But why did he choose to not tell the truth about press reporting on his feud with the intelligence community?

That reporting was based on the president’s own statements.

CONWAY: The president went to the intelligence community yesterday to establish good relationships with them. And we had over 1,000 requests to attend. We could only accommodate a few hundred.

He will be back. He got a standing ovation. And it’s really time for him to put in his own security intelligence community. We really would prefer the intelligence community that is going out the door to be much more respectful toward the president and his vision in moving forward.

We’re not really thrilled with the leaks that have come out with the last several weeks or months. And we think in the interest of keeping us all safe, George, that the intelligence community that we saw on their feet yesterday, welcoming President Trump for his rousing speech, is the one that we look forward to working with.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Final question.

You mentioned a couple hundred thousand people who sent in petitions on health care, talking about health care, you also have more than 200,000 who petitioned the White House calling on President Trump to release his full tax returns with all information needed to verify emolument’s clause compliance.

Whenever 100,000 petition, that triggers a White House response. So, what is the White House response?

CONWAY: The White House response is that he’s not going to release his tax returns. We litigated this all through the election. People didn’t care. They voted for him.

And let me make this very clear. Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.

All Pretenses Gone

Alternative facts are lies.

“put in his own security intelligence community” is what dictators do.

“I will release my tax return after audit” -> “Not going to release tax returns”

At this rate, we will not make it to the mid-term 2018 election before USA turns into an authoritarian state.