Rep. Andy Biggs used smoke as a metaphor to blow smoke -- compounding the embarrassment he should feel for being a an apologist for anything involving President Trump with poor narrative skills.

In a roundup of comments from Arizona’s congressional delegation concerning the meeting Donald Trump Jr. now admits having with a Russian lawyer in June 2016, a meeting he attended in the hope of getting trash on Hillary Clinton, a meeting he went to after having been told that there were connections to Russian authorities, Biggs tried to brush off the scandal.

First, he praised Trump Jr. for releasing emails about the meeting, something Trump did only after he knew The New York Times already had them.

Still, Biggs lauded him, saying the release that releasing the emails “was absolutely the right move,” and then trying to underplay the whole sordid (and possibly criminal) episode.

'I'm not even sure it's a poor judgment call'

“I think this is just smoke on a wet log that the Democrats keep trying to light on fire,” Biggs told the Fox Business Network. “There’s nothing there. You’ll see there’s nothing there. It was a brief meeting ostensibly over opposition research. … I’m not even sure it’s a poor judgment call. Maybe it was handled in a clumsy fashion, but the reality is everybody’s seeking opposition research on their opponents.”

Nothing there? So why not be truthful about the episode until after the press got ahold of it?

Just last weekend Don Jr. said of the meeting, “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up.”

Nope. It was a campaign issue.

Back in March he told the Times, “Did I meet with people that were Russian? I’m sure, I’m sure I did. But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment. And certainly none that I was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form.”

Who's really blowing smoke here?

Actually, this meeting was set up and he was representing the campaign in EVERY way, shape and form.

Biggs calls all this – and many other now provably false denials by the White House – “smoke on a wet log.”

But who’s really blowing smoke here?

Loyalty is one thing. But members of Congress, like Biggs, swear an oath to the Constitution. Not to Donald Trump.

Perhaps the congressman should have a little chat with the Arizona delegation’s senior member.

Sen. John McCain’s comment on the Trump Jr. incident was, “As I've said many times in the past, there's another shoe that will drop and there are other shoes that will drop.”

He added that neither his campaign people nor his sons would meet with Russians looking to pass on dirt.

"My sons are in the military, they'd be court-martialed," McCain said.

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