Sarah says The Don never asked her to lie [View all]
CBS NEWS April 19, 2019, 7:49 AM
One day after the president fired FBI director James Comey, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters "countless members of the FBI" had contacted the White House to say they opposed Comey's leadership. According to special counsel Robert Mueller's report, Sanders told investigators that phrase was a "slip of the tongue" even though she said it multiple times ...
Mueller's report also said that Sanders recalled a similar statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey were "made 'in the heat of the moment'" and "not founded on anything" ...
"In the course of your time at the White House, has the president ever asked you to say something that you knew not to be true?" "CBS This Morning" co-host John Dickerson said.
"The president isn't asking people to break the law, isn't asking them to do anything that is dishonest," Sanders replied. "If the president wants to fire somebody, he does. You've seen him do it before. This isn't a president who is afraid to go against the system, he's not a president that's afraid to step out and speak out. And if he has a problem with someone or something he's gonna state that" ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mueller-report-sarah-sanders-says-trump-never-asked-her-to-lie/
Poor Sarah! Over and over again, she repeats as fact untrue statements that she simply made up -- and then unkind people accuse her of lying! What would Devin Nunes' Mom say?