Tag: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Five reasons Trump would have wanted Andrew McCabe fired

The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website March 16, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on March 15 said former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe “has had some very troubling behavior.” (Reuters)

Andrew McCabe stepped down as the FBI’s deputy director in January and had planned to officially retire on Sunday, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired him Friday night — a little more than 24 hours before the 20-year bureau veteran would have qualified for full retirement benefits.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had said on Thursday that President Trump would leave the decision to Sessions. “But,” she added, “we do think that it is well documented that he’s had some very troubling behavior and, by most accounts, [is] a bad actor.” In addition, Trump in tweets had musedabout McCabe’s pension and suggested Sessions should have removed him sooner. Continue reading “Five reasons Trump would have wanted Andrew McCabe fired”

The trouble with the White House’s spin on Trump and guns, in one exchange

The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website March 12, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on March 12 said President Trump “hasn’t backed away” from previous proposals to help prevent mass shootings. (Reuters)

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did her best on Monday to argue that President Trump is not backing down but rather prioritizing on gun control.

A newly released administration plan calls for improving reporting to the existing background-check system for gun buyers and training some educators to carry firearms in schools, but it does not propose raising the minimum purchasing age for military-style rifles from 18 to 21, an idea Trump previously endorsed. Instead, the plan directs a commission led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to “study and make recommendations” on “age restrictions for certain firearm purchases.” Continue reading “The trouble with the White House’s spin on Trump and guns, in one exchange”

Sarah Sanders is at her worst at a strange time — when she’s talking about respect for women

The following column by Margaret Sullivan was posted on the Washington Post website February 13, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Feb. 12 that President Trump “hopes for the best for all American citizens.” (Reuters)

She dripped disdain.

She oozed contempt.

“If you were paying attention to what I just read to you . . .” she huffed, like an exasperated teacher reprimanding a classroom troublemaker. Continue reading “Sarah Sanders is at her worst at a strange time — when she’s talking about respect for women”

Trump believes the men

The following article by Edward-Isaac Dovere was posted on the Politico website February 9, 2018:

The president has consistently responded to the allegations of assault or abuse against women by expressing sympathy for the men being accused. ‘Is there no such thing’ as due process? he tweeted Saturday

In a moment when “believe the women” has become a rallying cry, a new mentality for the country, President Donald Trump does not. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

For President Donald Trump, the allegations that his now-former staff secretary was a serial domestic abuser are another #HimToo moment.

Never mind the FBI background check that found the allegations and restraining order credible enough to delay Rob Porter’s security clearance, or the close-up photos of the black eye Porter’s ex-wife says he gave her on vacation in Italy.

To the president, sitting in the Oval Office on Friday, the victim here seems to be Porter.

“It was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly he’s also very sad now,” Trump told reporters. “He also, as you probably know, says he’s innocent, and I think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that he’s innocent, so you have to talk to him about that.” Continue reading “Trump believes the men”

White House aide Rob Porter resigns after allegations from ex-wives

The following article by Andrew Restuccia and Eliana Johnson was posted on the Politico website February 7, 2018:

Porter, a former chief of staff to Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, served as President Donald Trump’s staff secretary.

White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a mostly unknown but deeply influential aide who spends almost every day by President Donald Trump’s side, said Wednesday he plans to resign following abuse allegations from his ex-wives.

In a pair of reports published by the Daily Mail, Porter’s two ex-wives detailed episodes of alleged verbal and physical abuse. The Daily Mail published a copy of a protective order obtained by Porter’s second wife in 2010, and later published photographs of Porter’s first wife with a black eye she said came from Porter punching her. Continue reading “White House aide Rob Porter resigns after allegations from ex-wives”

Polls show ‘no one’ cares about the Russia investigation, White House press secretary said. That’s not true.

The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website January 29, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Jan. 29 said polls have shown that “no one cares about” the issues surrounding the Russia investigation. (Reuters)

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump will not address the ongoing investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because no Americans care about the issue.

At Monday’s White House briefing, Sanders said: “We spend more time on that than we do any other topic despite the fact that time and time again, poll after poll says that frankly no one cares about this issue, and it’s certainly not the thing that keeps people up at night.” Continue reading “Polls show ‘no one’ cares about the Russia investigation, White House press secretary said. That’s not true.”

White House claims Wall Street Journal misquoted Trump as saying he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un

The following article by Anne Gearan was posted on the Washington Post website January 14, 2018:

President Trump spoke about Hawaii’s false missile alert, talks with North Korea and his disputed quote in a Wall Street Journal article on Jan. 14. (The Washington Post)

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump claimed Sunday that the Wall Street Journal deliberately misquoted him as saying that he probably has a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The White House is disputing the newspaper’s report that Trump, in an interview last week with several Journal reporters, said he has a good relationship with the nuclear-armed leader he has previously mocked as “Little Rocket Man.” Continue reading “White House claims Wall Street Journal misquoted Trump as saying he has a good relationship with Kim Jong Un”

‘Outrageous,’ White House Says of DACA Ruling, as Trump Calls Court System ‘Broken’

The following article byEileen Sullivan was posted on the New York Times website January 10, 2018:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the fate of the program should be addressed by Congress. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump called the United States courts system “broken and unfair” on Wednesday, the morning after a federal judge’s ruling that ordered the administration to restart a program that shields young, undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Republicans and Democrats are in the middle of a legislative battle over the program created by President Barack Obama, called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Lawmakers met with President Trump on Tuesday to discuss the program’s future.

“We find this decision to be outrageous, especially in light of the president’s successful bipartisan meeting with House and Senate members at the White House on the same day,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said in a statement released Wednesday morning.

Hours after the White House meeting, Judge William Alsup of Federal District Court in San Francisco wrote that it was not proper to kill the program, and that the administration must “maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis” as the legal challenge to the president’s decision in September to end the program moves forward.

Mr. Trump has previously criticized the courts system after judges have halted or held up his policy initiatives.

Ms. Sanders said the fate of the program should be addressed by Congress.

“President Trump is committed to the rule of law, and will work with members of both parties to reach a permanent solution that corrects the unconstitutional actions taken by the last administration,” Ms. Sanders said.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied about Trump’s position on marijuana and we have receipts

The following article by Aaron Rupar was posted on the Think Progress website January 4, 2018:

Trump flip-flopped in more ways than one.

CREDIT: SCREENGRAB

On Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked if President Trump agrees with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind Obama-era federal guidance discouraging prosecutors from prosecuting certain marijuana cases in states where it is legal.

Sanders indicated that Trump does in fact agree with Sessions’ move to restore federal power — one that threatens to throw the country’s $20 billion legal cannabis market into chaos. Continue reading “Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied about Trump’s position on marijuana and we have receipts”

White House: The new Trump book is ‘trash,’ except for this one part we like

The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website January 4, 2018:

President Trump delivered a video message to reporters during White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s media briefing on Thursday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday called Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” a “book full of lies.” She said during a media briefing it is riddled with “fake stories” and “information that’s not true.”

It’s merely “some trash that an author that no one had ever heard of until today, or a fired employee, wants to peddle,” Sanders said, referring to Wolff and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who is quoted frequently in the book.

Yet as Sanders dumped on Bannon, she cited Wolff’s reporting in “Fire and Fury” as a legitimate source.

“The book also says that he had been sidelined by April [2017], which I think goes further to indicate that he had very little credibility to give much information, particularly after that point,” Sanders said. Continue reading “White House: The new Trump book is ‘trash,’ except for this one part we like”