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Ex-Bush aide: White House never asked me ‘to go out and lie’

by Nikita Vladimirov - 05/12/17 9:38 AM ET

This seems relevant.

Nicolle Wallace on NBC: "I worked in a White House that was far from perfect, but I never was asked to go out & lie." pic.twitter.com/iim9tBEuTx

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 12, 2017

A former communications director to President George W. Bush on Friday ripped President Trump’s White House communication strategy following the ousting of former FBI Director James Comey.

Nicole Wallace said that it is extraordinary to see Trump and his White House officials contradict each other on Comey’s firing, adding that she was never instructed to “go out and lie” to the public.

{mosads}”I cannot overstate how extraordinary it is. I worked in a White House that was far from perfect, but I never was asked to go out and lie and I was never caught in a lie by a president who went out and contradicted me,” she said in an interview with NBC News.

“What the president does over and over again is create a reality that is completely detached from the reality that he believed in hours before,” she added.

“No one is immune from … whatever he believes to be true at the moment.”

The White House originally maintained that Trump made the decision to fire Comey after the Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein sent a memo to the president, stating that Comey had done “substantial damage” to the FBI’s credibility.

Several days later, however, Trump seemed to have directly contradicted his White House staff, telling NBC’s Lester Holt that his mind was made up about Comey even before receiving the memo.

“I was going to fire regardless of the recommendation,” Trump said.

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