In his interview with Savannah Guthrie, Spicer continued to present Trump as an honest, benevolent man, not a thin-skinned spitfire who lies constantly:
Guthrie: Was there ever a time that the president asked you to lie?
Spicer: No
Guthrie: Was there ever a time where he wanted you to say something that you felt was untrue or on the line?
Spicer: Well, look, in the book that comes out next week, I go through a lot of the big seminal moments…
Spicer then described himself as a kid from the small state of Rhode Island, as if that has anything to do with whether or not Trump is a liar.
When Guthrie asked if the president was a truthful person, Spicer—with a straight face—said, “I believe so.”
Spicer also said there’s no evidence that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was a “witch hunt,” as Trump is so fond of saying. “As of now I see no evidence that it is,” said Spicer. Still, he doesn’t buy the collusion angle:
Spicer: I think there’s two issues. One, as I mentioned earlier, there’s the collusion, which we’ve seen no evidence of so far.
Guthrie: With the investigations ongoing…
Spicer: Correct. Fair enough.
Guthrie: There’s been three guilty pleas from former trump associates.
Spicer: But it has nothing to do with actually collusion. They have to do with lying and not registering properly.
Guthrie: But why would you lie to federal investigators?
Spicer: I don’t know, I wouldn’t!
“But with respect to the meddling, that’s another thing,” said Spicer, acknowledging multiple Russians who have been indicted by Mueller.
In conclusion, Spicer has a book coming out and so you’re going to have to tolerate more of this useless shit for the duration of the publicity tour.
