Sen. Roy Blunt (r): see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing

Michael Bersin

7 years ago

Coward. And hack.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

This morning:

Transcript: Senator Roy Blunt on “Face the Nation,” October 6, 2019

[….]
MARGARET BRENNAN: Are you comfortable with what the president has said here in this call for foreign governments Ukraine and China to investigate his political opponent?

SEN. BLUNT: Well I- I doubt if the China comment was serious to tell you the truth. The president–

MARGARET BRENNAN: You don’t take the president–

SEN. BLUNT: The president–

MARGARET BRENNAN: -at his word?

SEN. BLUNT: No the president loves to go out on the- on the White House driveway. I haven’t talked to him about this. I don’t know what the president was thinking. But I do know he loves to bait the press and he does that almost every day to see what you’ll talk about and maybe what he was hoping was–

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you don’t believe–

SEN. BLUNT: –somebody in the press will say–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –the president, but is that appropriate to ask for a foreign government to interfere in the election?

SEN. BLUNT: I- I don’t imagine that’s what he was doing certainly —

MARGARET BRENNAN: –but is it appropriate?
[….]