Sarah Sanders has not come out of this looking good.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told the special counsel that she did not actually hear from "countless members of the FBI" praising Trump's decision to fire James Comey.
And she made up her statement about the FBI losing confidence in Comey "in the heat of the moment." pic.twitter.com/3tXLH2efw6
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 18, 2019
Mueller report says Sarah Sanders acknowledged to investigators her claim that countless FBI agents lost confidence in Comey was "not founded on anything." & Trump told Comey in late January people liked him and there's no evidence suggesting he heard otherwise before firing him. pic.twitter.com/Al05Wm28Ck
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 18, 2019
In other words the press secretary lied. We knew that, but now we know she had to admit it to Mueller’s team.
She lied to the press and to us “in the heat of the moment.” Well guess what, Sarah Sanders, heated moments happen a lot when you’re a press secretary, times a thousand when you’re press secretary to a corrupt criminal racist bullying blister like your boss. If you lie every time the moment is heated, that’s a lot of lying…which will come as a surprise to no one.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1118928656943013888
https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1118920181403799553
https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1118932691641085952
This is the moment where Sarah Sanders told the press she had "heard from countless members of the FBI" that Comey had lost the confidence of the rank and file of the FBI. The Mueller Report confirmed today that she lied and that "her comments were not founded on anything." pic.twitter.com/bb8fyoONx6
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) April 18, 2019
That’s a good one: a Times reporter presses her on the “countless” claim, with an incredulous “Really?”, and she firmly insists yes, really.
Now that Sarah Sanders has admitted to lying on behalf of the President there is no need for any reputable news outlet to have her on air to comment.
A Press Secretary with no integrity shouldn’t have a platform. https://t.co/rw9yONNvJ4
— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) April 18, 2019
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7 responses to “Sanders should resign immediately”
“Oh; so ‘countless’ means ‘too many to count,’ rather than ‘actually none to count?’
Ooops. Sorry!”
You’re all being too harsh. “Countless” can also mean “not counted”. Checkmate, reality fans.
“Countless” as in the same class as “brainless”.
@Omar:
Yes, in two senses. First, her use of the word was straight from the standard playbook of deflection and required no intelligence. Second, people who desperately want to believe in some shit or other will gulp it up like a carp, desperate to avoid having to use any intelligence.
Which I suppose is one way of putting it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/white-house-mueller-report.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
She has ZERO credibility now.
Oh I think we’re well into the minus range at this point, as her credibility has been less than zero for quite some time. I think a good working assumption is that anything she says is untue until proven otherwise. Pretty much the same assumption one uses for utterances from her boss.