Well that escalated quickly. White House press secretary Sean Spicer won’t say if Trump will invoke executive privilege or not in order to block Comey’s testimony.
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That would be… something.
David Gergen explains why it would be a terrible idea for him to do so, and that he should follow the example of Ronald Reagan instead.
Executive Privilege isn’t mean to cover up whatever crimes the president might have committed, it’s for the sake of keeping privileged information private. This would just fuel the investigations and his foes even more. If there’s nothing there, he should let the investigations follow their natural course and be exonerated in front of the American public…