The Royal We vs The Country I. Lewandowski's Trump Spin
By Spocko
We all know about The Royal We. Today Cory Lewandowski described what I'm calling "The Country I."
According to Lewandowski, when the President said to Comey "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty." what he was REALLY talking about loyalty to the country.
That's some 10,000 RPM spin non-people.
Tucker Carlson, in his role as TV host like substance, was totally was down with that.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, you just heard Congressman Swalwall bring up almost first thing this statement from the former FBI director that says President Trump asked for his quote, "loyalty." Now assuming that's true, why would the president ask for loyalty from an FBI director? What does that mean?
COREY LEWANDOWSKI: Look, what the president asked for was loyalty to the country, and loyalty to make sure that the American people have the justice system that they want. That's not unheard of, that's not uncalled for. What the president asked for as a president-elect, was to develop a rapport with the incoming FBI director. If you read the statement that the FBI director, what he said was in his entire tenure he had two conversations with Barack Obama when he was the president of the United States. One was to simply say goodbye. And in the time that President Trump has taken office, from the time he was the president-elect til the time Jim Comey was fired for not performing his job well he had nine separate conversations with the president and multiple meetings. The difference is this president is hands-on, wants to make sure the best Justice Department available, and he made the decision as the commander in chief to relieve a person from duty who was no longer capable of running the FBI.
CARLSON: Well that's for sure, and you'll get no disagreement from me, by the way, privately from a lot of Democrats, that Comey was out of control because he was.
via Media Matters
From Comey's statement.
'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.' I didn't move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence."
Shorter Lewandowski:
"The President identifies so strongly with the country that when he said "I" he also means The Country. It's almost Arthurian."
