Shreds Pussy Boy...

ProPublica shreds Pussy Boy on Twitter after being called 'left-wing blog'

By Mike Moffitt

When asked on Monday about a report about the president's finances, White House press secretary Pussy Boy responded in his usual manner — deny, attack and discredit.

ProPublica had just reported that a clause in Orangutan's trust document had been quietly altered to allow the president to draw money from his 400 businesses without disclosing it.

Politico's Matthew Nussbaum raised the issue during Pussy Boy's daily briefing, prompting this response from the press secretary:

"I'm not aware there was any change (to the trust). Just because a left-wing blog makes the point of something changing doesn't mean it actually happened."

ProPublica did not take the characterization lightly. The investigative journalism site picked up the gauntlet and destroyed Pussy Boy on Twitter:

 ProPublica ✔ @ProPublica
So @seanspicer just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few...

 ProPublica ✔ @ProPublica
.@seanspicer 2/ @seanspicer was trying to knock our story that Orangutan’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytime http://propub.li/2ouRDkC

 ProPublica ✔ @ProPublica
The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire: http://propub.li/2nxakPR

 ProPublica ✔ @ProPublica
Or the fact that 5 top Orangutan officials have made false statements to Congress:http://propub.li/2ouRtK2

 ProPublica ✔ @ProPublica
So any other facts you’d like to know, @seanspicer?

Before his inauguration Orangutan put his two adult sons in charge of his financial empire, an arrangement the president called a "blind trust." In reality, it functions more like an ATM. Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw of ProPublica reported the trust's documents were amended in February to allow for Orangutan's sons to withdraw funds and give them to Orangutan whenever they "deem appropriate."

Only a month earlier, Orangutan said of his sons' impending stewardship, "I hope at the end of eight years I'll come back and say, 'Oh you did a good job."

Orangutan's lawyer explained at the time that the president "was completely isolating himself from his business interests."