The worst White House press secretary in history
by digby
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is checking out. There had been word of her going a while back and she denied it. But apparently, she thinks she hs a political future in her home state of Arkansas. They are big Trump lovers there so I wouldn't be surprised.
If they love liars, she's their girl:
Trump, who apparently has no idea when Sanders started working for him, announced the news on Twitter, praising the woman who routinely brawled with the press and lied through her caps in service to his agenda, and suggesting she should seek public office. “After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas,” Trump wrote. “She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas - she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!”
In this case, a “job well done” refers to routinely and shamelessly telling brazen lies, some of which include:
Denying knowledge of Trump’s in-office hush-money payoffs, despite the fact that Trump himself admitted to them;
Claiming that Trump had created far more jobs for African Americans than Obama, when, in reality, Obama created four times as many as Trump;
Insisting, with a straight face, that her boss had never “promoted or encouraged violence,” seemingly forgetting the time Trump told supporters at a rally, of a protester who’d been ejected, “I’d like to punch him in the face”; or the time he told a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay. Just knock the hell—I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise”; or the time he openly fantasizedabout “Second Amendment people” preventing the appointment of liberal judges; or the time he instructed police officers to knock suspects’ heads against the side of their squad cars.
Smearing the many, many women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment or assault and claiming they are the liars;
And, of course who could forget the time she created an elaborate yarn about how she’d heard from “countless…individuals who work at the FBI who said they were very happy” with Trump’s decision to fire James Comey, in an attempt to make the story that the firing was all about agency morale stick, and had nothing whatsoever to do with the Russia investigation. Which, of course, she admitted was a total lie during her interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. She subsequently doubled down, telling George Stephanopoulos that she only admitted to lying about hearing from “countless” people, before shifting the focus to Comey, who she described as a “disgraced leaker” and a “dirty cop.”
