Huckabee Sanders attempts to tell us why The WH never released prepared Niger statement

[riversedge]

White House seeks to explain never released Niger statement

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/president-donald-trump-niger-statement/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw



By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 7:03 PM ET, Wed October 18, 2017
Story highlights

Trump's first remarks didn't come until nearly two weeks later
He was asked about them during an impromptu news conference on Monday

Washington (CNN)It's not clear why it took President Donald Trump 12 days to publicly comment on the deaths of US troops killed in an ambush in Niger, but it wasn't for lack of effort from some White House officials.

White House officials prepared and circulated internally a statement to be issued on the President's behalf the day after the attack. But the statement, obtained Wednesday by Politico and confirmed by CNN, was never officially released.

Instead, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders took to the briefing room that same day and said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the fallen service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the freedoms we hold so dear."
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Pressed Wednesday on why it took Trump so long to offer a public statement on the soldiers' deaths, Sanders pointed reporters to her remarks October 5, saying she made those remarks "at the direction of the President."


"I speak on his behalf and I did that on behalf of the President and the administration," Sanders said, though her initial statement made no specific mention of the President.

A White House official said Wednesday the White House opted not to issue the written statement from the President, deciding instead it would be more powerful for Sanders to deliver remarks from the White House podium on the matter. The official said it was more important to elevate the message by issuing it from the White House podium.
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[Cartoonist]

1. Have a flunkie do it

That's Powerful!

[Tanuki]

2. She issued a vague, cliche-ridden piece of garbage that did not bother

to mention the names of the dead or offer any explanation of what happened, much less why the French had to go in to make the rescue and why Sgt. Johnson was left behind. I'm still not clear on whether he was already deceased or whether he was taken alive and killed after the others left. Does anyone know? "Thoughts and prayers" don't cut it this time.

[applegrove]

4. That is what i am wondering.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. They run the White House like a corrupt, incompetent small town hall.

He does not give a damn about any traditional norms, either diplomatic, administrative, or societal. Presidential public statements used to be "issued" and went on record as an official document. Now, we rely on verbal press statements, tweets, rumor, leaks and off-the-cuff shit that someone hears in passing.

Our executive branch has diminished into a carnival side show.