Tag: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Sarah Sanders: It’s ‘Startling’ That Women Still Criticize Her

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in her first appearance as a Fox News pundit on Friday, complained that people — especially women — still take her to task for lying on Trump’s behalf.

“Every once in a while, you have somebody who comes up to say something nasty to you,” Sanders told “Fox & Friends” hosts. “What I always find interesting is 99 percent of the people who come over to say something negative and to attack you are women, and I find that very startling.”

Sanders went on to note that she found it jarring that people who support women’s equality would criticize her since she was “only the third woman and the first mom to ever be the White House press secretary.”

View the complete September 8 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.

Five memorable moments from Sarah Sanders at the White House

Sarah Huckabee Sanders will depart her role as White House press secretary at the end of June, President Trump announced Thursday.

Her tenure, which officially began in July 2017, featured many controversial moments as she fiercely defended the president and frequently clashed with the press corps.

Over her tenure, she became a trusted aide to Trump and one of the most prominent faces of the White House. She also helped shape the White House’s handling of the media.

Here are five of the most memorable or important moments of her years as press secretary.

View the complete Chris Mills Rodrigo on The Hill website here.

An epitaph for the Sarah Sanders era: She would gladly sacrifice core elements of democratic society to protect Trump

At Politico’s “Women Rule” event in late 2018, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who President Trump announced Thursday would soon be leaving her position as White House press secretary, said that she hoped her legacy would be as a person who was, “transparent and honest throughout that process” and did “everything I could to make America a little better that day than it was the day before.”

Of course, given the sheer volume and magnitude of lies Sanders and her boss have inflicted on the U.S. population over the years, it’s hard now not to laugh at these words. Most recently, Sanders claimed that she had heard from “countless…individuals who work at the FBI who said they were very happy” with the firing of James Comey. It should go without saying that Sanders simply made that up. When offering testimony under oath to the Mueller investigation, Sanders openly admitted that her statement “was not founded on anything.”

“Not Founded on Anything.” I can’t think of a better epitaph to trademark for the Sarah Huckabee Sanders era at the White House. Actually, I can’t think of a better epitaph for the Trump administration in general.

View the complete June 16 article by Christian Christensen from Common Dreams on the AlterNet website here.

Five memorable moments from Sarah Sanders at the White House

Sarah Huckabee Sanders will depart her role as White House press secretary at the end of June, President Trump announced Thursday.

Her tenure, which officially began in July 2017, featured many controversial moments as she fiercely defended the president and frequently clashed with the press corps.

Over her tenure, she became a trusted aide to Trump and one of the most prominent faces of the White House. She also helped shape the White House’s handling of the media.

View the complete June 15 article by Chris Mills Rodrigo on The Hill website here.

Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting

When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be remembered for her transparency and honesty, the first impulse was to laugh.

But lying to citizens while being paid by them really isn’t all that funny.

Sanders took on an impossible job when she became President Trump’s spokeswoman, a job that’s about to reach a welcome conclusion.

View the complete June 14 article by Margaret Sullivan on The Washington Post website here.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving White House press secretary post

Trump tweets she will return to Arkansas, encourages her to run for governor

Updated 5:59 p.m. | White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who shut down daily briefings and was frequently accused of making false statements, is leaving her post at the end of this month and returning to her home state of Arkansas, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.

Sanders said she was “blessed and forever grateful” to Trump for the opportunity to serve, adding that she was “proud of everything he’s accomplished.”

She has avoided the White House podium, at Trump’s direction, for over 90 days after her soon-to-be former boss said the media was too harsh on her and asked unfair questions. She replaced her briefings, which usually lasted around 20 minutes, with impromptu “gaggles” in the White House’s north driveway following cable news hits, typically on Fox News. Those almost always lasted under or around 10 minutes.

View the complete June 13 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.

Sarah Sanders to leave White House after turbulent ride

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose fierce loyalty to President Donald Trump and clashes with reporters defined her tenure, is stepping down at the end of the month.

The president announced her departure on Twitter Thursday afternoon. Trump said she would be returning to her home state of Arkansas, adding that he hoped she would decide to run for governor.

“She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job!” Trumpwrote on Twitter. “I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas — she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!”

View the complete June 13 article by Andrew Restuccia on the Politico website here.

Sarah Sanders carries out a ‘mass purge’ that disqualifies ‘almost the entire White House press corps’ from covering Trump

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has quietly implemented a new standard that has resulted in what one journalist calls “a mass purge” of “almost the entire White House press corps.”

Huckabee Sanders revoked the press credentials, known as a “hard pass,” for all Washington Post reporters assigned to cover the White House, and many others. That would be six correspondents, and Dana Milbank, a veteran journalist who writes an opinion column at the Washington Post, and is the first to report this story.

“After covering four presidents, I received an email informing me that Trump’s press office had revoked my White House credential,” Milbank writes in The Washington Post Wednesday evening.

View the complete May 8 article by David Badash from The New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

What to do about Sarah Sanders? White House reporters have a few ideas.

Reporters have long approached White House press secretary Sarah Sanders with a trust-but-verify attitude, knowing full well that Sanders is tasked with spinning some of the more unspinnable statements made by her boss, President Trump.

But with the publication of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Thursday, Sanders’s credibility among the people who cover her has been stretched about as taut as a violin string.

One White House reporter, April Ryan, has openly called for Sanders to be fired. While others don’t go that far, they acknowledge that Sanders’s public statements have damaged her, perhaps permanently, as the president’s spokeswoman. In conversations with reporters, it’s not unusual to hear her compared unfavorably to Ron Ziegler, President Nixon’s press secretary, whose reputation was shredded by the Watergate scandal.

View the complete April 22 article by Paul Farhi on The Washington Post website here.

Sarah Sanders decides to double down on the lie she admitted to Mueller

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is peddling a new explanation for a lie she told the American people. In at least three different interviews since the release of the redacted Mueller report Thursday, Sanders has attempted to stand by a claim that she had told the investigation — under oath — was utterly bogus.

The lie in question is Sanders’ claim that in May 2017, the White House had heard from “countless” members of the FBI who had lost confidence in James Comey, then-director of the agency. At the time, she claimed the loss of confidence was one of the primary reasons President Donald Trump had fired Comey. Trump himself had written in his letter terminating Comey that morale at the FBI was at an all-time low. But the Mueller investigation found no evidence to support any of those claims, and according to the report, “Sanders acknowledged to investigators that her comments were not founded on anything.”

But in new interviews with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, and CBS This Morning, Sanders stood by the lie she had previously told. Using almost the exact same, clearly rehearsed language in each interview, Sanders insisted the original claim was true.

View the complete April 19 article by Zack Ford on the ThinkProgress website here.