Sarah Huckabee Sanders doesn’t hold press conferences anymore – in fact, it’s unclear exactly what she does on any given day now – so perhaps she’s not quite aware of what’s going on in the Trump administration, or perhaps she just not quite as good as lying as she used to be.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota spoke with the press secretary Thursday morning, reminding her that it was President Trump who walked out of a scheduled meeting with top Democrats on infrastructure Wednesday. Sanders insisted that Trump would not work with Democrats while they are investigating him and after Speaker Pelosi “accused him of a crime.”
Sanders went on to claim Democrats have “literally done nothing” to fix DACA and help the Dreamers. Camerota reminded Sanders there was a deal in place but it “fell apart because of the President.”
Sanders falsely claimed that the deal on DACA “fell apart because of the court system.”
The DACA deal fell apart over a year ago because of Trump.
Sanders then brought up Trump’s new “merit-based” immigration policy that he introduced last week.
Camerota again caught Sanders lying.
“Just to be clear, your merit-based plan will include Dreamers?” she asked, knowing it does not address DACA at all.
“The plan that we’ve laid out at this point doesn’t,” Sanders was forced to respond, as she stuttered, knowing she was caught.
“I mean, look, if you’re talking about a merit-based plan, don’t you start with Dreamers?” Camerota goaded. “There are Ivy League-educated immigrants here, brought here through no choice of their own, they want to cure cancer – I’m not making this up, we’ve actually interviewed some of these Dreamers. Isn’t that where merit-based starts?”
At the end, Camerota asked if Trump ever intended to hold Wednesday’s infrastructure meeting. Sanders insisted he had, and again attacked Democrats.
Camerota reminded her that the night before Trump sent Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer a letter saying infrastructure was not going to happen until Congress ratifies his USMCA trade deal.
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