It’s easy to disprove. That ONE quote is but ONE line of that Politico report. I’ve not seen the report but I guarantee there’s actual information there that didn’t come from Vance.
This is just another smear campaign and whomever let Status hear the report is now personally in violation of the agreement with Vance.
“I guarantee there’s actual information there that didn’t come from Vance.”
Politico was banned from the White House not for naming Vance but for posting that a senior administration official estimated the chances of reaching a preliminary agreement at between 80 and 85 percent.
The Post quotes Vance:
“I think the second thing is we do expect to be signing this agreement over the next few days. I can’t give you an exact date. And if I were to give you a confidence that we were going to be finding this agreement, I maybe would have said 75 percent this morning. It’s probably more like 80, 85 percent now, but it’s not 100 percent.”
If that tape comes out in court, it torpedoes the rationale for punishing Politico since Politico (a) reported the comments accurately, and (b) didn’t breach the anonymity condition.