White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders hits back at reporters wondering why US President Donald Trump undermined his intelligence community’s assessment on alleged Russia meddling and instead sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland.
Sanders had to deny the Helsinki bow on Wednesday as her boss had done upon returning to the US as pressure mounted on him over denial of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
“Certainly we’ve called them out. We’ve been tough. We’ve approached this in a totally different fashion than has been previously done, because what’s been done in the past hasn’t worked,” Sanders said. “But to act like he hasn’t been tough on Russia, that he hasn’t called them out, is simply not true.”
Subsequently it was pointed out that the White House has reversed course twice in the last three days on statements by the president.
“Why should this president have…