Sarah Sanders keeps digging herself in deeper after Mueller showed she lied

[Rhiannon12866]

The press secretary is now lying about lies.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders was caught lying several times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and now she’s defending herself with more misdirections.

During a string of media appearances following the release of the Mueller report on Thursday, Sanders has faced questions about a claim she made during a May 2017 press briefing that she later admitted was false during testimony to Mueller’s team. In an attempt to justify President Donald Trump’s decision to fire then FBI director James Comey, Sanders told reporters that “countless members of the FBI” had contacted her to say they had lost confidence in Comey, when in fact that wasn’t the case.

On Thursday evening and Friday morning, Sanders repeatedly downplayed that lie as a mere “slip of the tongue.” But as ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out to her in an interview on Friday morning, she used the line about “countless members of the FBI” multiple times in the days following Comey’s firing — a revelation undercutting her claim that she merely misspoke.

“You said it was a ‘slip of the tongue’ when you talked about ‘countless FBI members,’ yet you repeated it twice the very next day,” Stephanopoulos said. “That’s not a slip of the tongue, Sarah, that’s a deliberate false statement.”

Sanders, however, refused to own it, and bizarrely blamed her lie on Democrats.

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Read more: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18507639/sarah-sanders-george-stephanopoulos-mueller-report-lie-comey

[Progressive Jones]

1. There will soon be major career changes for her. Maybe this week. She's melting down. nt

[Hortensis]

3. It would be nice to have her off our payroll.

Whether or not she spends some additional time being supported by the taxpayers, no doubt some Christian right individual or organization will eventually gift her a well-paying job. Or maybe her dad will hire her again. Her entire career as a "political adviser" seems to have been gift jobs by or to please her father.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I heard tonight that she was one of the staff who was not charged for lying to the special counsel

I don't understand why.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

12. Well, the lie about "countless members of the FBI" was not made to the Special Counsel

It was made to the press and the American people. So, although it was a lie -- and regarded as a sin in the religion she pretends to follow -- it was not a criminal act.

[Mike Nelson]

2. She was always such an...

… obvious liar... Spicer & Kellyanne, too. It's odd to see her singled out from the Report, but I supposed it's because the reporters always knew she was lying, just like everyone else. I hope she stays with the Trump Admin and gives more appearances! Sarah lowers herself every time we see her... please let this go on!

[lunatica]

5. She's still playing for the audience of one.

The reason she didn’t lie to the Special Council is because it’s a crime to do that.

[malaise]

6. She did not say Democratic Party

She said Democrat Party and was not corrected

[Tipperary]

7. They all seem to be scrambling.

Desperate; perhaps they realize how bad this report makes them look finally.

[Scarsdale]

8. As the truth is exposed,

maybe they are finally seeing that protecting the orange slimebag was just not worth it. Now they are STUCK. Faux will not hire her, too brunette, too large, too wonky-eyed. She is as unattractive as her boss, really. How did she get that job in the first place? Surely tRump did not do the hiring?

[Wednesdays]

16. "SHS lies for Donald Trump"

That tells you all you need to know.

[lunatica]

17. Her daddy can deliver the Evangelical base

Nuff said.

[MrsCoffee]

9. Pathological liar.

Heard that term used repeatedly last night about her.

[Girard442]

10. In a world where truth, facts, and honesty mattered...

...she would have taken a red-eye flight to parts unknown long ago. The only thing that really matters is loyalty to Trump and that she still has. Why, I don't know, because he's shown time and again that he has none to his minions.

[mnmoderatedem]

11. Lawrence O'Donnell had a good segment on this last night

part of her claim that scores of FBI agents were so happy that Comey was fired was read off a prepared script on the outset of one of her press briefings.

Off a freaking script.

That's not a slip of the tongue, you pathological lying moron.

[mopinko]

14. you beat me to it.

that was his last word last night-


https://link.theplatform.com/s/7wvmTC/N3UrqUcJWjcX?MBR=TRUE&format=redirect&manifest=m3u&format=redirect&Tracking=true&Embedded=true&formats=MPEG4

[Rhiannon12866]

18. I saw that, too - it was a great Last Word!

That's exactly why I decided to post this when I ran across it. Her constant lies need to be exposed and discredited.

[moondust]

13. Bald-faced lying about her lying.

It was absolutely premeditated, scripted lying/propaganda that she was reading and it's not even debatable.

Such a deeply devout Christian liar. Ouachita Baptist University and her Baptist minister father must be so proud.

[GoCubsGo]

15. "...I wasn't a robot like the Democrat Party."

What the hell is that supposed to mean? That Democrats are robots? This woman is off her rocker.