Sarah Sanders – Fusion Nepal

Lying is contagious, and it appears the White House is suffering an outbreak.

Look at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who’s in charge of making the president’s bald-faced lies to the American people presentableOn Wednesday, a stone-faced Sanders said a reporter’s question was “ridiculous” when she asked if Trump ever lied to the American people.

Asked if she could say Pres. Trump has never lied to the public, press secretary Sarah Sanders tells @CeciliaVega, “I think that’s a ridiculous accusation. The president in this matter has done nothing wrong, and there are no charges against him.” https://t.co/DuaWJzfKYo pic.twitter.com/v69UeOsLjY

— ABC News (@ABC) August 22, 2018 Read more…

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The Washington Post has jumped to the defense of Sarah Sanders a day after the press secretary was refused service at a restaurant.

The piece, titled “Let the Trump team eat in peace,” was written by the paper’s editorial board. In it they argue that Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen, and Stephen Miller — all public faces of the administrations widely condemned immigration policy — should be left alone and “allowed to eat dinner in peace.” It’s an odd stance for this moment in history, and naturally it has a lot of people really riled up.

While the Post‘s board acknowledges that readers “will get no argument from us regarding Mr. Trump’s border policy,” they do argue against what they see as the incivility of interrupting someone’s meal. Read more…

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