Well they did it.

They actually did it.

Members of the press actually asked Pierre Poilievre about his campaign paying the legal fees for the “whistleblower” who took out Poilievre’s main rival, Patrick Brown, out of the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership race.

Watch:

WATCH: @PierrePoilievre asked why he paid for the whistleblower's legal fees who took down his main rival, Patrick Brown.

"Why was your campaign in particular, the one that ought to have paid this bill?"

He gives a short non-answer, then runs away.#cdnpoli #PierrePoilievre pic.twitter.com/gDMNcGbtPR

— Jason Pugh 🏳️‍🌈 (@TheJasonPugh) July 26, 2023

Yes, it was announced that they were down to the final two questions. That doesn’t excuse PP from giving bullshit answers before scurrying away.

About Poilievre’s BS answers, Twitter user Ltmbf (Loritmbf) said:

Standing up for whistleblowers is different from paying them to whistleblow.
She is a widow with a veteran son? What the heck does that have to do with this?
Pathetic.

— Ltmbf 👩🏻‍🎨 (@Loritmbf) July 26, 2023

Right? None of that is relevant to the issue at hand. He was just throwing out words to sound like he was actually answering.

LoyalCanadian (@LoyalCanadian4u) had a good point:

So when he's PM he'll protect whistleblowers (exposing his govt) from his own government's efforts against that person?
That's what I'm hearing.

— 🇨🇦LoyalCanadian🇨🇦☸️🔭🖖 (@LoyalCanadian4u) July 26, 2023

Yeah. Just like how Poilievre wouldn’t use the Prime Minister’s “private jet.”

Heather Clemenceau (@HClemenceau) asks a great question:

She blew the whistle on Brown, who was exonerated? How does that make you a whistleblower? He paid $37,000 in legal fees for what then?

— Heather Clemenceau (@HClemenceau) July 26, 2023

Tom Whittaker (@Whittakertp) asks another great Q:

PP never does well off script. But my question has always been why did the "whistleblower" go to Team Poilievre and not the CPC Party? Her allegations were unfounded by the way.

— Tom Whittaker (@whittakertp) July 26, 2023

Could it be that she is apparently friends with Poilievre’s mother?

Nell (@nellserenitynow) had this to say about Poilievre’s final BS answer before his disappearing act:

“We’re the campaign that supports whistleblowers”… who can eliminate people who pose a threat to my leadership.

— Nell (@nellserenitynow) July 26, 2023

The REAL answer!

I’ll finish off with Charles Adler’s (@charlesadler) take:

Poilievre wants you to believe that his campaign didn't pay the $$$ to destroy a political opponent. They paid it to protect someone. You need to be dumber than mustard to buy this burger. https://t.co/ndb40bKdWL

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) July 26, 2023

JP