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From: SeachRE3/21/2017 11:11:45 AM
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Trump: "I hardly know these guys." ........ White House press secretary Sean Spicer made a point Monday to suggest that a top adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign wasn't really a top adviser at all. Paul Manafort, who was the campaign chairman for months, was reduced to having “ played a very limited role for a very limited period of time.”

But Manafort is hardly the only player the Trump team has downgraded retroactively — and often in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. This is part of a pattern, and it stretches back to the campaign.

In the same briefing Monday, Spicer seemed to dismiss longtime informal Trump adviser Roger Stone and former foreign policy adviser Carter Page as “hangers-on.” “Some of those names, the greatest amount of interaction that they've had is have cease-and-desist letters sent to them,” Spicer said. Former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, meanwhile, was only a “volunteer of the campaign,” Spicer said.

The common link between all four men, of course, is that they are now liabilities — under scrutiny for their interactions related to an investigation of Russian meddling in the campaign. But Spicer's efforts to suggest that their roles didn't amount to much truly strain credulity.(WaPo)
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