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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSarah Sanders Admitted to the Special Counsel that She Lied About Comey
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/mueller-report-sarah-sanders-lie-comey-firing/?fbclid=IwAR1SS9t8ucf1TYvybsLKwmbq_FZi5zcJf2gOtthoORTWlyYTT-T8lW_uxTc1 hour ago
Sarah Sanders Admitted to the Special Counsel that She Lied About Comey
She says her claims about the former FBI director were a slip of the tongue.
Were still making our way through a redacted version of Robert Muellers 448-page report on the Russia investigation, but one of the early revelations that has emerged is the extent to which President Donald Trumps officials have lied on his behalf. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders produced one sizable whopper in May 2017, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comeys firing, when she suggested that he was unpopular among the bureaus rank and file.
After a reporter claimed that a vast majority of agents supported Comey, Sanders replied, Look, weve heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things.
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That response was not founded on anything, Muellers office concluded after interviewing Sanders, who told special counsel staffers she had made a slip of the tongue. The report also says she spoke to the president after that press conference and he told her she did a good job and did not point out any inaccuracies in her comments.
The lack of evidence for this sentiment didnt stop Trump from latching on to it in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC News a day later. He said the FBI was in virtual turmoil under Comey.
Andrew McCabe, then acting FBI director, defended the bureaus ousted leader in a congressional hearing that week, telling lawmakers that Comey enjoyed broad support in the FBI and he still does to this day. A survey of FBI employees released a year later by Lawfare backed up McCabes description. Morale at the FBI had in fact improved during Comeys tenure, and the former director was widely admired among FBI personnel, the site found. It was only under Christopher Wray, Comeys successor, that morale plummeted and employees expressed less confidence in the ethics and vision of the bureaus new leadership, the New York Times noted.
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Sarah Sanders Admitted to the Special Counsel that She Lied About Comey (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2019
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Hassler
(3,377 posts)1. Huckalie Slanders lies as effortlessly as her lying, politician, preacher daddy
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)2. Sarah Hucksterbee
If her lips are moving, lies are coming out.
Raven123
(4,830 posts)3. Apparently slipped on a Commandment