The Mueller report nails Sarah Sanders on an extravagant fabrication, ErikWemple writes in Opinions
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 18 at 3:37 PM Even among the falsehoods and absurdities that have poured forth from this White House, this one stuck out: In May 2017, after President Trump fired then-FBI Director James B. Comey, Sarah Sanders — then serving as deputy White House press secretary — provided personal testimony that the abrupt move was good for the department’s morale.
In the afternoon of May 10, 2017, deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders spoke to the President about his decision to fire Comey and then spoke to reporters in a televised press conference. Sanders told reporters that the President, the Department of Justice, and bipartisan members of Congress had lost confidence in Comey,"[a]nd most importantly, the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director.
The claim from Sanders about a groundswell of FBI types applauding the firing of Comey sounded implausible enough that reporters kept badgering the deputy press secretary on the matter. The day after her assertion about “countless” employees, Sanders was asked to square her own assessment with that of McCabe before Congress. Her answer:
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