of Justice profile U.S. persons, including former Ambassador Michael McFaul,72 Roger Stone,73 Sean
Bannon, Priebus, Sean Spicer, and other Transition Team members were present.1252 During the briefing
the election, people would think Russia helped him win, taking away from what he had accomplished.74 Sean
Spicer, the first White House communications director, recalled that the President thought the Russia
politics/trump—press-conference- transcripthtml. 73 Priebus 10/13/17 302, at 7; Hicks 3/13/18 302, at 18; Spicer
purpose of the Russia investigation was to delegitimize his presidency). 74 Hicks 3/13/18 302, at 18. 75 Spicer
.131 Flynn repeated that claim to Vice President-ElectMichael Pence and to incoming press secretary Sean
Spicer.132 In subsequent media interviews in mid-January, Pence, Priebus, and 122 David Ignatius, Why
Department of Justice Spicer denied that Flynn and Kislyak had discussed sanctions, basing those
On January 23, 2017, Spicer delivered his first press briefing and stated that he had spoken with Flynn
‘37 Sean Spicer, White House Daily Briefing, C-SPAN (Jan. 23, 2017). '38 Yates 8/15/17 302, at 4; Axelrod
In a private conversation with Spicer, the President stated that he had never asked for Comey’s loyalty
- Spicer 10/16/17 302, at 4.
unlikely to be prosecuted, and the President had determined that the issue with Flynn was one of trust.213 Spicer
302, at 9; Flynn 11/17/17 302, at 10. 2‘3 SCR004m00600 (2/ 16/ 17 Email, Burnham to Donaldson). 2” Sean
Spicer, White House Daily Briefing, C-SPAN (Feb. 14, 2017).
Comey, former Director of the FBI, at 6). 2‘“ See, e. g, Sean Spicer, White House Daily Briefing, C-SPAN
Priebus 1/18/18 302, at 8. 245 E.g., Sean Sullivan et 31., Senators from both parties pledge to deepen
reason for Comey’s termination.465 In an unplanned press conference late in the evening of May 9, 2017, Spicer
evening and the next morning, White House officials and spokespeople continued to maintain that the 455 Spicer
Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why, Washington Post (May 10, 2017) (quoting Spicer
Smith, Peter Spicer, Sean Stone, Roger Tillerson, Rex Timofeev, Ivan Trump, Donald Jr.
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