be investigated thoroughly. above all the president sports victims of domestic violence and believes everyone should be treated fairly and with due process. we ve addressed this situation extensively and we have nothing more to add at this time on that topic. kimberly, one of the true sentences in that statement was the last one. when she said, we have nothing more to add at this time on that topic, and she didn t no matter how the reporters tried to go at it. i read that statement as simply the white house saying, we are going to say absolutely nothing about this, and we are going to trust that the white house press corp. will lose interest in this because the white house press corp. always does. and it was essentially a denial, too. i mean, the idea that it was only last week that they got any idea that there was a problem with rob porter is just, regardless of what set of facts
is allowed to believe any woman to accuses. that s why donald trump tweeted on saturday peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. some are true and some are false. some are old and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely accused. life and career are gone. that is the only sympathy donald trump has expressed in the case of accused against violence against a woman. sympathy against the accused. donald trump has help with that tweet because he doesn t use legal phrases like due process and he doesn t know what they mean. donald trump couldn t bring himself to say a word of sympathy to rob porter s former wives and there s no reason to think he feels anything to the victims of violent men.
taken seriously and is taken seriously by this white house, the facts belie that. so does the fact that the president still, at this point, has not acknowledged these women, not acknowledged these accusations, has only given statements in tweet and in person defending rob porter. ruth, one of the reasons that previous white houses respond more fully in these situations is that they believe the questions will never stop if we don t get out there and respond to a certain amount, at least, of the information. this white house believes that the questions will always stop on any given particular controversy because they always have. remember when john kelly for example got caught lying about congresswoman wilson, the white house press corp. did not ask about that for more than a day and a half, they stopped, never asked about it again. so it seems like this white house is relying on the pattern that they have been able to rely
you believe, is just wrong. we know that there was a problem with his permanent security clearance, he didn t have it more than a year in and we knew that months beforehand, the white house was notified of this fact. we know that the fbi notified don mcgahn about problems with that security clearance. we know that an ex-girlfriend contacted the white house when she found out that hope hicks was dating rob porter to inform them of the abuse allegations. there was a protective order issues, there were blog posts. if the white house was unaware of this situation, it was because it would be a case of the most willful blindness in history. so the idea they can say it was just last week and as soon as we found out we moved within hours, it just isn t true. it s another denial. even though sarah huckabee-sanders said today that domestic violence should be
porter punched her, she wrote being strong with excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts does not inoculate a person against abuse. it doesn t prevent her from entering a into a relationship with an abuser. abuse often doesn t manifest itself early on, only later when you re in deep and behind closed doors. the really ugly side of rob s abuse only came out after we married, following three years of dating. hope hicks has always gotten very special treatment from donald trump and the trump family and from the trump campaign press and from the trump white house press corp. watch this very unusual moment in the white house press briefing room in the first week of the trump presidency with hope hicks.