White House under intense pressure over memo
“I’ll give you some advice. Over the course of your life you will find things aren’t always fair. You have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight!
“You can’t let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams. Don’t give in, don’t back down and never, ever, ever give up. Things will work out just fine.” He added: “I will never stop fighting for you. I will never stop fighting for the American people.”
His speech came as the White House was under intense pressure over the Comey memo. Comey claimed Trump told him: “I hope you can let this go.”
The White House said the memo was “not truthful or accurate.”
The battle came a day after Trump was accused of sharing classified information about an ISIL plot with Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, in the Oval Office.
At a press conference, Putin said sarcastically: “I’ll be forced to issue Lavrov with a reprimand because he did not share these secrets with us.”
Putin offered to provide the Russian transcript of the meeting and said America appeared to be suffering from “political schizophrenia.”
Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, said that he still had “full confidence” in the president and that the legislative agenda he and the Republican Party campaigned on would continue.
“We are walking and chewing gum at the same time,” Ryan said.
He added: “It is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president. Before rushing to judgment, we will get all the pertinent information. That is our job, to be sober, to be dispassionate, and to follow the facts wherever they may lead.”
Ryan said there were “a lot of unanswered questions” including why Comey “didn’t take action at the time.”
OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE YOU WILL FIND THINGS AREN’T ALWAYS FAIR.