Schiff: State-Run TV Fox News ‘Parrots’ Trump’s Talking Points on Russia Investigation

‘In the world of Donald Trump, if you deny something, you’ll not only not have a problem, but it didn’t happen’

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BLITZER: "Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General said he briefed the president on this indictment earlier in the week. So how do you explain if the president was fully aware that these 12 senior Russian GRU military intelligence operatives were going to be named specifically and all these details in this lengthy document were going to be released, how do you explain the president once again calling it a rigged witch hunt, the whole Mueller probe?"
SCHIFF: "Because his argument about witch hunt has nothing to do with facts. And he’s not so oblivious he doesn’t realize that. This is all marketing for him. If he says it enough, if he says no collusion, no collusion, no collusion, which he repeats in threes like a mantra, maybe he can make the country or at least enough of it believe him. And certainly on the state-run TV that FOX has become, they’ll parrot his talking points. But -- but this is precisely it. He has to be aware of what the exacts are. But he believes if you deny it — and in the world of Donald Trump, it served him well it got him to the ultimate office in the land. In the world of Donald Trump, if you deny something, you’ll not only not have a problem, but it didn’t happen. It literally makes the facts go away. And -- and that’s what he’s practicing."

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