Earnest slams Republicans for hypocrisy on Manning pardon

Posted by | January 18, 2017 15:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

Look at who they’re in bed with.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said GOP lawmakers have put on “an astonishing display of intellectual dishonesty,” citing their support for President-elect Donald Trump.

“Those are the same Republicans on Capitol Hill who endorsed a man for president who praised WikiLeaks, defended the integrity of Julian Assange even as he was trashing the patriotic men and women who work in the United States intelligence community,” Earnest told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

“The argument they make against Chelsea Manning,” he added, “requires the American people to willfully ignore those comments from the president-elect, the man they endorsed.”

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5 responses to Earnest slams Republicans for hypocrisy on Manning pardon

  1. William January 18th, 2017 at 15:01

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  2. nola878 January 18th, 2017 at 15:07

    Hypocrisy…it’s the RW way…

  3. wpadon January 18th, 2017 at 17:53

    President Obama gave him a Scooter Libby.

  4. Mensa Member January 18th, 2017 at 19:56

    >> Earnest slams Republicans for hypocrisy on Manning pardon

    It’s an important distinction — this wasn’t a pardon. It was a commutation.

    Manning has spent seven years in prison much of it in solitary confinement. He is in such a bad situation that he has repeatedly tried to commit suicide.

    Seems like enough punishment to me.

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