White House Principal Deputy Secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News' Howard Kurtz that vouching for Trump over allegations he had a 'temper tantrum' was 'absolutely not' awkward.
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley over the weekend complained about the mainstream media’s coverage of President Donald Trump and expressed his view that “it would be so nice if we had a complicit, compliant media.”
“Absolutely not. Especially if you’re in the face of 92 percent negative news coverage against you. We have to vouch for him all the time. It’s amazing how the media covers what he does, what he says in a slant that makes everything negative, no matter how positive the subject matter may be,” Gidley responded, before clarifying that he's referring to “a majority of journalists.”
Trump reportedly stormed out of a White House meeting with Pelosi and Schumer on Wednesday hours after Pelosi accused him of engaging in a “coverup” over his administration’s stonewalling of House Democratic efforts to obtain documents pertaining to their investigations into the president’s personal and company finances.
After Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues that Trump had a “temper tantrum for us all to see” in a letter sent later that evening, the president defended his conduct in a tweet as well as asked several members of his team to vouch for him during a press conference on Thursday morning.
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