Huckabee Sanders Insists President’s Comment Didn’t Mean What It Clearly Meant
The White House held a “daily” press briefing Wednesday, and it was explosive.
Multiple times Wednesday afternoon White House reporters pushed Sarah Huckabee Sanders on President Trump’s remarks earlier in the day, when he said “no” after being asked if he thinks Russia is still interfering in the U.S. elections.
The correct answer is “yes,” according to Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats.
The President clearly was saying “no” to the question, but hours later the White House press secretary insisted Trump was saying “no” to any new questions. As one NBC reporter, Hallie Jackson put it, never has the president said “no” when saying he would not take any more questions.
Here’s a clip of Jackson hitting the Press Secretary hard on this issue:
“This is the second time in three days that the president or the White House has come out and reversed what the president has said,” Jackson charged, as the room began to erupt.
Huckabee Sanders then claimed that President Trump and his administration are “working very hard to make sure that Russia is unable to meddle in our elections.”
There is no evidence of that.
Countering the president, who clearly said “no,” he does not believe Russia is still interfering in the U.S. elections, Huckabee Sanders said the administration believes “that the threats still exist, which is why we are taking steps to prevent it. Again, we wouldn’t go through that lengthy process if you weren’t.”
Again, that is false.