It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he
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jacobs for maligning him in public and lying about him, and he has not apologized to everyone who published or broadcast the fish tissuous statement that he put his name to. one hopes for his own sake that he did not give that version to the police because if he did, that s a crime. greg gianforte is going to be a member of congress, and if he takes shane scanlon to washington with him, anyone who has business with the office of montana s only congressman should know that if you re dealing with shane scanlon, you re talking to a liar. if he s willing to lie about a violent assault committed in front of witnesses, he will be willing to lie about anything, which means that anything shane scanlon says to reporters, to voters, to anyone else, is completely worthless. mmmm.
categorically denied that happened and said the only aggressor was soon to be congressman gianforte, an assertion backed up by the audio of the assault. quote, it s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer barbecue. that statement, which we now know was a complete and total lie, a fabrication, that was issued by a person by the name of shane scanlon, gianforte s spokesperson. that s shane right there. we asked shane to come on the show tonight, and we ve reached out to the gianforte campaign for comment with no reply. right now shane scanlon, as far as we know, has not apologized for his defamation. he has not apologized to ben jacobs for maligning him in public and lying about him, and he has not apologized to everyone who published or broadcast the fictitious
anything for donald trump. that s right. here s gianforte, who cares about this guy except for the fact he s running for congress, and people were able to marshal the same muscles that they ve exercised in excusing donald trump to excuse this guy. it is pretty remarkable. i think part of it was the fact that this is less than 24 hours out from the polls closing. and i think that partisan motivated reasoning is a pretty strong thing. it s a little bit spooky. as gianforte apologizes, if you talk to the people on my twitter mentions, i think they would say he s got nothing to apologize for. that was the other weird thing. because the line had been, everyone saw that the statement was transparently fabricated. that wasn t what people said. what they said instead was that he you know, he had it coming. you know, there was some excuse for the violence. cornell, to michael s point, my sense is that actually the performance in the early vote, which is about 75% of votes, and