A decision by the White House to trot out Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard in the middle of a press conference on Wednesday earned the Donald Trump administration a thrashing on MSNBC on Thursday morning.
With the White House trying to put out the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm, press secretary Karoline Leavitt turned over the lectern to Gabbard who proceeded to spin a tale about Russia having information on Hillary Clinton that indicated she had “psycho-emotional problems” which were being treated with medication going into the 2016 election
She also repeated allegations that Barack Obama was part of a group that plotted a coup in 2016, and that he should be prosecuted.
That led "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire to level the Trump Cabinet official, with Scarborough saying Gabbard had hit a "new low."
Scarborough began, "What's on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this morning? DOJ told Trump his name is among those in the Epstein file. Some would say Tulsi Gabbard –– and what was that yesterday? Seriously? Talk about playing down to the lowest of low expectations, Tulsi."
"Tulsi Gabbard you are the winner of actually meeting the lowest of the low expectations that were laid out for you," he added. "But all of this stuff is just leading to chaos. Maybe, maybe, the president thinks, 'Hey, let's throw as much against the wall as we can throw against the wall.'"
He went on, "I don't even think it's distracting the MAGA base, and I say that because this attempt of distraction — and again, Tulsi Gabbard was just crazy, mind-blowing."
He added that a recent Supreme Court ruling gave sitting presidents immunity. "So even if you're wild, crazy conspiracy theories were right, they would be irrelevant," he said.
Lemire chipped in, "So she made her debut in the White House Briefing Room yesterday in what,at the very least, we shall say that the bit of the timing here is a bit suspicious that suddenly we're talking about 2016 again. Suddenly we're talking about Russian interference again and these unfounded claims at the same time, when the president has been well chronicled here over the last couple of weeks."
"He's been eager to talk about anything other than the Jeffrey Epstein matter," he added.
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