{"id":67244,"date":"2026-06-11T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=67244"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:32:45","slug":"i-didnt-do-it-someone-else-did-it-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=67244","title":{"rendered":"“I didn’t do it, someone else did it, but…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

…I take full responsibility for it.”<\/p>\n

I just read the above in an article about a Congressional hearing featuring our current Energy Secretary, but really, it could’ve been any current Cabinet member.<\/p>\n

He was asked whether something he’d written on social media was true. It wasn’t. So he said, “No.” And then went on to blame a staff member for the, uh, untruth before he took “full responsibility.”<\/p>\n

I know, I know. No point in keeping up with these bizarro creatures and their statements. Still, this blaming someone other than oneself and immediately taking responsibility deserves a mention. It’s sort of deft, in a Trumpled kind of way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…I take full responsibility for it.” I just read the above in an article about a Congressional hearing featuring our current Energy Secretary, but really, it could’ve been any current Cabinet member. He was asked whether something he’d written on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8679,1095,1175,2902,7798],"tags":[5963,3980,11862],"class_list":["post-67244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-trump-stuff","category-war","tag-congressional-hearings","tag-trumps-cabinet","tag-us-energy-secretary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t