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Vance betrays WH involvement in Bolton raid, despite denials, by describing what 'we' are doing in the investigation [View all]
...I may be wrong, but I don't think I've ever seen a WH personalize their description of an ongoing investigation this way.
Normally they would be consistently deferential to what the Justice Dept. is doing, repeatedly referring questions back to the DOJ, instead of making assertions like Vance is here about a case.
"We’re in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton. I will say we’re going to let that investigation proceed," Vance told NBC News' "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker in an exclusive interview.
"We are investigating Amb. Bolton, but if they ultimately bring a case, it will be because they determine that he has broken the law," he added. "We’re going to be careful about that. We’re going to be deliberate about that, because we don’t think that we should throw people — even if they disagree with us politically, maybe especially if they disagree with us politically — you shouldn’t throw people willy-nilly in prison. You should let the law drive these determinations, and that’s what we’re doing."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/vance-denies-the-fbi-is-investigating-john-bolton-because-he-s-a-trump-critic/ar-AA1L2DSy
"We are investigating Amb. Bolton, but if they ultimately bring a case, it will be because they determine that he has broken the law," he added. "We’re going to be careful about that. We’re going to be deliberate about that, because we don’t think that we should throw people — even if they disagree with us politically, maybe especially if they disagree with us politically — you shouldn’t throw people willy-nilly in prison. You should let the law drive these determinations, and that’s what we’re doing."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/vance-denies-the-fbi-is-investigating-john-bolton-because-he-s-a-trump-critic/ar-AA1L2DSy
..how weird for Vance to rhetorically take ownership of the Bolton investigation, presumably on the president's behalf, just as questions are being raised about political retribution directed at Bolton by a WH whose president called the target a 'lowlife' at the same time he was claiming to know nothing about the investigation.
'We' is not making a convincing case of that.
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