{"id":403410,"date":"2019-04-20T02:09:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/after-mueller-white-house-press-secretary-is-toast\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T02:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:09:30","slug":"after-mueller-white-house-press-secretary-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/after-mueller-white-house-press-secretary-is-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mueller, White House Press Secretary Is Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>Donald Trump\u2019s White House press secretary, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/04\/18\/mueller-report-sarah-sanders-admitted-she-lied-about-trumps-firing-of-james-comey\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is an admitted liar<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Justice Department <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/04\/18\/bill-barrs-amazing-spin-machine-trumps-ag-is-barely-even-pretending\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>released<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s long-awaited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/news\/2019\/04\/muellerreport.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>400-plus-page report<\/span><\/a><span> on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to the report, when Sanders faced the press at two different press conferences in May of 2017 to explain Trump\u2019s firing of James Comey as FBI director, she told bald-faced lies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On May 10, 2017, Sanders said that Trump \u201chad countless conversations with members from within the FBI\u201d and learned that \u201cthe rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-1761662633\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-1193851138\">\n<aside class=\" callout inline-callout callout--subscribe callout--light\" id=\"truth-556115339\">\n<h4>Never miss another story<\/h4>\n<p>Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>That same day she said that \u201cmost of America had decided on their own that Director Comey was not the person that should be leading the FBI, as evidenced by the numerous comments that we\u2019ve seen from Democrat members in the House and Senate, Republican members, <\/span><i><span>members of the FBI<\/span><\/i><span>, and people across the board.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The next day, Sanders\u2019 claims were refuted by then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who testified under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee that \u201cI can confidently tell you that the majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to Director Comey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On the next day, May 11, at a White House press conference, Sanders repeated her lies when pressed about this discrepancy by Fox News correspondent John Roberts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI have heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president\u2019s decision and I think we may have to agree to disagree,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI can speak to my own personal experience,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Mueller\u2019s report, however, there is \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d to indicate that Trump fired Comey for refusing to publicly state that the president wasn\u2019t personally under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/after-mueller-white-house-press-secretary-is-toast\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is an admitted liar. The Justice Department released on Thursday a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s long-awaited 400-plus-page report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. According to the report, when Sanders faced the press at two different press conferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}